The Republic of Zuersuehselohust is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 6.864 billion Zuersuehselohustians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Zuersuehselohustian economy, worth 881 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 128,431 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in, sailors spend their shore leave helping old ladies cross the street, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, and grim instructresses lead the unwillingly impregnated in chants of "it's all my fault" and "blessed be the fruit". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zuersuehselohust's national animal is the Python, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Zuersuehselohust is ranked 163,973^rd in the world and 358^th in Two for Most Primitive, scoring -61.97 on the Scary Big Number Scale.