The Holy Empire of West Zantonia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Our Most Revered God-Emperor with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.921 billion Zantonites 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Spirituality, Industry, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blessed Virkodo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.7%.

The frighteningly efficient West Zantonian economy, worth a remarkable 4,645 trillion Mollaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 233,171 Mollaris, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,670,146 per year while the poor average 10,595, a ratio of 157 to 1.

Cigarettes are dead-cheap, police are doing their best to break down barriers between them and the community, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, and believers who wear their faith on their sleeves make easy targets in hostile areas. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. West Zantonia's national animal is the Pangolin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Word Of The God-Emperor.

West Zantonia is ranked 4,294^th in the world and 9^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Black Market, with 1,888 trillion Standard Monetary Units.