The User of Zarbik is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by NA with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.65 billion NA are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of NA. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient NA economy, worth a remarkable 3,767 trillion NAS a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 390,388 NAS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and NA have replaced bears in a popular idiom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zarbik's national animal is the NA, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is NA.

Zarbik is ranked 167,811^th in the world and 10^th in Just relax for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 1,422.48 on the Hickory Productivity Index.