The Federation of Zarate-Campana is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Government Junta with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, pith helmet sales, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 11.407 billion Zarateños are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The minute, corrupt, socially-minded government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zvikomborero. Income tax is unheard of.

The large but stagnant Zarateño economy, worth 388 trillion dollars 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. 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 34,075 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities, and the new intercity submarine SSN Lepidochrysops Coxii Warrior instills terror in claustrophobic travellers. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zarate-Campana's national animal is the Lepidochrysops coxii, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is National secularism.

Zarate-Campana is ranked 284,459^th in the world and 40^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Highest Average Incomes, with 34,075.46 Standard Monetary Units.