The Empire of Zanithia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Dex with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.303 billion Zanithians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Complex. The average income tax rate is 63.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zanithian economy, worth 479 trillion Pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 145,312 Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dex's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, and torture is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zanithia's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zanithia is ranked 32,174^th in the world and 587^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,587.79 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.