The Commonwealth of Zebastani is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by PM Zaflan Talyas with an even hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.532 billion Zebastanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyrask. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zebastanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,088 trillion Zelts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 244,800 Zelts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, and human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zebastani's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Blep.

Zebastani is ranked 306,907^th in the world and 386^th in 10000 Islands for Most Cultured, scoring 31 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.