The Dictatorship of West Zaya is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Admiral General Aladeen with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.031 billion West Zayans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nusaí. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.1%.

The very strong West Zayan economy, worth 177 trillion Bais a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 87,286 Bais, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 492,363 per year while the poor average 7,614, a ratio of 64.7 to 1.

Historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, the might of the entire West Zayan Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders, gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones, and people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Zaya's national animal is the Crane, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Aladeenism.

West Zaya is ranked 92,017^th in the world and 4,825^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.9 law-abiding acts per hour.