The Desert Planet of Zilesia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 20.241 billion Zilesians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Zilesian economy, worth 586 trillion topaz rings 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Automobile Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Soda Sales. 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 28,971 topaz rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zilesia's national animal is the Sidewinder, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zilesia is ranked 137,633^rd in the world and 6,581^st in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 62.04 law-abiding acts per hour.