The Isle of Zorah is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Lady Yves Lidrad with a fair hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 8.904 billion Zorahians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tali. The average income tax rate is 27.6%.

The Zorahian economy, worth 422 trillion barzels a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Average income is 47,407 barzels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Lady Yves Lidrad has just been declared ruler of Zorah in an international press conference, Tehom-Elism has been named as Zorah's national religion, street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by, and parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zorah's national animal is the eel, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans, and its national religion is Tehom-Elism.

Zorah is ranked 149,043^rd in the world and 4^th in Exodus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 74.16 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.