The Republic of Zip468 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its smutty television, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.119 billion Zip468ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 34.9%.

The all-consuming Zip468ian economy, worth 181 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,419 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.1 times as much as the poorest.

The military patrols the streets in search of possible secessionists, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", and sneezing in public is a capital offense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zip468's national animal is the falcon.

Zip468 is ranked 22,300^th in the world and 1,156^th in Osiris for Largest Black Market, with 16.7 trillion Standard Monetary Units.