The Anti-Monarchist Shogunate of Zinguanaville is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 688 million Zinguanavilleans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xelandria. The average income tax rate is 65.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Zinguanavillean economy, worth 18.4 trillion Muggins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is 26,730 Muggins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, courtrooms can be a little sketchy, and convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zinguanaville's national animal is the Lemur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zinguanaville is ranked 175,593^rd in the world and 399^th in Forest for Most Developed, scoring 52.47 on the Human Development Index.