The Empire of Zenic is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Santiago Cuauhtémoc with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cynical population of 28.348 billion Zenicians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Citium. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Zenician economy, worth a remarkable 2,402 trillion Sens a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 84,741 Sens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The average video game can be completed over lunch break, keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Zenicians, antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were, and annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zenic's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Zenic is ranked 46,179^th in the world and 15^th in Rushmore for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 192.78 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.