The Republic of ZMC05 is a very large, safe nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The devout population of 498 million ZMC05ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.6%.

The ZMC05ian economy, worth 22.8 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,869 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 131,702 per year while the poor average 12,703, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

Pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments, tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, and the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZMC05's national animal is the parrot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

ZMC05 is ranked 275,890^th in the world and 29^th in RegionZ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -22.56 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.