The Republic of ZMC16 is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its digital currency, sprawling nuclear power plants, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The devout population of 361 million ZMC16ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 41.7%.

The very strong ZMC16ian economy, worth 20.5 trillion rubles a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 56,708 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs, judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most, and midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZMC16's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

ZMC16 is ranked 206,866^th in the world and 18^th in RegionZ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 51.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.