The Community of Zage is a fledgling, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6 million Zages 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Welfare, although Education, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 59.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Zage economy, worth 83.7 billion Petels 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, quite specialized black market in Pizza Delivery, Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 13,953 Petels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Zage City to enjoy their national art, the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses, and the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zage's national animal is the Tanned Tri-headed Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zage is ranked 321,493^rd in the world and 15^th in Chordis for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,609.49 Standard Monetary Units.