The Grand Complex of Zarfinyarful is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Uncle Butternubs with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, free-roaming dinosaurs, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.616 billion Zarfs are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Basement. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zarfin economy, worth 269 trillion Barzels a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,036 Barzels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market, pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty, and cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zarfinyarful's national animal is the Manticore, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Butternubality.

Zarfinyarful is ranked 276,054^th in the world and 190^th in Karma for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -9.38 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.