The United Socialist States of Zadelia is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.727 billion Augustans 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Augusta. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zadelian economy, worth 153 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 56,124 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, replacement organs are grown in vats, banning party poppers has been a real party pooper, and tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests. Crime is totally unknown. Zadelia's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Zadelia is ranked 275,721^st in the world and 1,831^st in the South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 82.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.