The Zombie Blue Haze of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Nick Zaphod with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.975 billion Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasterians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of H2G2. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasterian economy, worth a remarkable 4,043 trillion Zaphods a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 202,435 Zaphods, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 595,729 per year while the poor average 54,161, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches, prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster's national animal is the Witch, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Alcoholism.

Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster is ranked 12,751^st in the world and 101^st in the West Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 58.02 flags saluted per person per day.