The Grand Complex of Zarfinyarful is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Uncle Butternubs with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.545 billion Zarfs 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Basement. The average income tax rate is 90.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zarfin economy, worth 262 trillion Barzels a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,270 Barzels, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers, and jaywalking is punishable by public flogging. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zarfinyarful's national animal is the Manticore, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Butternubality.

Zarfinyarful is ranked 22,573^rd in the world and 57^th in Karma for Most Beautiful Environments, with 957.02 pounds of wildlife per square mile.