The Grand Duchy of Zaveria is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Luca Star with an even hand, and renowned for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.928 billion Zaverians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zilsafirs. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Zaverian economy, worth 253 trillion Frosmoths a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 86,428 Frosmoths, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, military spending is on the increase, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, and the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaveria's national animal is the Shellos, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zaveria is ranked 281,148^th in the world and 15,044^th in Lazarus for Highest Drug Use, scoring 29.81 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.