The Ancient Republic of Zeorus is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Nasi Reuel with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 23.997 billion Zeorusians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — is dominated by the Department of Education, with Welfare, Environment, and Public Transport also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pardes. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zeorusian economy, worth a remarkable 2,250 trillion efahs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 93,781 efahs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A paperwork error has naval privateers being directed to attack land-locked nations, autocrats are persona non grata, billions of efahs are being poured into a space program, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime is totally unknown. Zeorus's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the cult of the Overseer.

Zeorus is ranked 1,489^th in the world and 1^st in The Brotherhood of Malice for Nicest Citizens, with 81.73 average smiles per day.