The Federation of Zuark Space Social Republic is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 108 million Zuark Space Social Republicians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Zuark Space Social Republician economy, worth 2.57 trillion CheddarCoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 23,795 CheddarCoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day, religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, and weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zuark Space Social Republic's national animal is the Space Bear cheddar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Zuark Space Social Republic is ranked 68,624^th in the world and 9^th in The Moon for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.29 law-abiding acts per hour.