The Elysian Fields of ZOO288 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Charles with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.522 billion Cavaliers 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 prioritizes Defense, although Education and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Charlestown. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cavalierian economy, worth a remarkable 2,723 trillion Cavalier coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 362,067 Cavalier coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime is totally unknown. ZOO288's national animal is the Cavalier King Charles spaniel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cavaliers.

ZOO288 is ranked 50,016^th in the world and 91^st in The Eternal Order for Most Income Equality, scoring 60.47 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.