The Protectorate of The Corporate Zone is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, triple-decker prams, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 339 million Corporate Zoneans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Corporate Zonean economy, worth 33.7 trillion Credits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,447 Credits, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

The family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, the government is under the thumb of countless special interests, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Corporate Zone's national animal is the Ideal Worker, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Corporate Zone is ranked 19,895^th in the world and 538^th in The North Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 47.57 flags saluted per person per day.