The Empire of Zerocs is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vassili Simo with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 22.305 billion Zerocsians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Datlof. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zerocsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,893 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 129,744 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry, nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, third world countries are rich in "I Love Datlof" t-shirts, and professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zerocs's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zerocs is ranked 322,740^th in the world and 17,612^th in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.49 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.