The First Republic of Zamastan is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Sabine Armitage with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 19.102 billion Zamastanians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tofino. The average income tax rate is 75.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zamastanian economy, worth a remarkable 5,729 trillion ziapets a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Tourism, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 299,926 ziapets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most people suffer from some form of hearing loss, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up, and the temple hierarchy have found that endorsements are even more lucrative than indulgences. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zamastan's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Church of Zian.

Zamastan is ranked 14,160^th in the world and 2^nd in Coalition of Crown Albatross for Most Corrupt Governments, with 131.89 kickbacks per hour.