The Democratic Republic of Zhia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chairman Tucodo Drilye with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 16.941 billion Zhians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ooughe. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Zhian economy, worth a remarkable 1,418 trillion Baos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is 83,711 Baos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 290,172 per year while the poor average 17,630, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

Homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, and weekends are spent tilting at windmills. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zhia's national animal is the llama, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zhia is ranked 105,126^th in the world and 4^th in Brannackia for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,890.74 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.