The Holy Empire of Zem Peeps is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Lord Beccus with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, cynical population of 6.795 billion Zem Peepsians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Berlin. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zem Peepsian economy, worth 822 trillion BIC Lighters a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 120,990 BIC Lighters, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

People transfer their assets to bank accounts in Manamana before getting divorced, the government guarantees that tourists will have the ultimate trip on their trips, if someone says there's plenty of living space in Zem Peeps they're lyin', and the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zem Peeps's national animal is the Edible Hornet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Peepsianism.

Zem Peeps is ranked 16,269^th in the world and 590^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 94 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.