The Eastern Paradise of ZUN is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Reimu Hakurei with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, digital currency, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful population of 12.159 billion youkai enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Social Policy, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hakurei Shrine. The average income tax rate is 85.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming youkai economy, worth a remarkable 1,142 trillion beers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 94,000 beers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most, and the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZUN's national animal is the yukkuri, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Holy Order of the Armpit.

ZUN is ranked 117,813^th in the world and 4,228^th in Osiris for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,229.62 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.