The Armed Snake Holy State of Waste land zero is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Holy Salami Pope Bunker snake with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.603 billion Snakes are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Safe Haven. The average income tax rate is 54.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Waste land zeroan economy, worth 615 trillion Salami Coins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,549 Salami Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes, foreign musicians that Holy Salami Pope Bunker snake dislikes are turned away at the border, the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed, and burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Waste land zero's national animal is the Irradiated snake 🐍, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Salamiism.

Waste land zero is ranked 57,938^th in the world and 80^th in The Free Nations Region for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,120.96 on the Gilded Widget Scale.