The Protectorate of 90034 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 10.539 billion 90034ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 37.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient 90034ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,036 trillion 9003s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 193,251 9003s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more, elected officials who disagree with Leader have a lot of accidents, women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, and only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 90034's national animal is the 9003, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

90034 is ranked 25,510^th in the world and 678^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,267.01 on the Gilded Widget Scale.