The State of ZBE is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 16.473 billion ZBEians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant ZBEian economy, worth 352 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 21,394 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political activists are routinely executed, cars are banned, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, and muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZBE's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ZBE is ranked 48,975^th in the world and 16^th in 0000 for Lowest Crime Rates, with 74.46 law-abiding acts per hour.