The Queendom of Zancostan is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Lord Taro Stiltsington with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.02 billion Zancostanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Administration, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stiltstopia. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Zancostanian economy, worth 233 trillion Zancoes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,700 Zancoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, sales of trenchcoats are on the rise, and teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zancostan's national animal is the Red Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Zancostan is ranked 15,089^th in the world and 383^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,229.35 pounds of wildlife per square mile.