The Soulgodian Commonwealth of Zebastani is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by PM Joseph Hadmirak with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.425 billion Zebastanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Zebastanian economy, worth 593 trillion Zelts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 173,209 Zelts, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 788,278 per year while the poor average 23,266, a ratio of 33.9 to 1.

The nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles, the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence, computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails, and citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zebastani's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zoroastrianism.

Zebastani is ranked 125,065^th in the world and 299^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 959.6 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.