The Protectorate of Zoro is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Roronoa Zoro with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.835 billion Straw Hats 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shimotsuki Village. The average income tax rate is 86.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Straw Hatian economy, worth 806 trillion swords 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 102,907 swords, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The real art was the AI friends we made along the way, rumour has it Roronoa Zoro needs a calculator to multiply ten by ten, the nation's streets have become a winter wonderland of salt and sand, and burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine. Crime is totally unknown. Zoro's national animal is the tiger and its national religion is Nakai.

Zoro is ranked 320,690^th in the world and 11^th in Straw Hats for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.75 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.