The Republic of ZX001 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, complete lack of prisons, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 11.459 billion zoolians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zoox. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong ZX001ian economy, worth 843 trillion XXXES 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 73,638 XXXES, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago, Zoolians submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card, groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety', and legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZX001's national animal is the devibodeez, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ZX001 is ranked 47,179^th in the world and 2,981^st in Lazarus for Highest Poor Incomes, with 55,076.09 Standard Monetary Units.