The Confederation of Zeiling is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Kanal Benes with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate population of 8.471 billion Zeilingians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Budaresa. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zeilingian economy, worth a remarkable 1,562 trillion Danubes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 184,486 Danubes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead, visiting dignitaries often end up cuddling in the hot tub with Kanal Benes, cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeiling's national animal is the bird of the danube, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Zeiling is ranked 5,078^th in the world and 1^st in Citreon for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,329.16 pounds of wildlife per square mile.