The Sultanate of Zahootan is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its closed borders, ritual sacrifices, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 14.466 billion Zahootanians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tehran. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zahootanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,881 trillion rials a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 199,166 rials, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on, people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile, the ban on cars has been repealed, and Zahootanian junkies argue that poppy stalks are ornamental flowers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zahootan's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Zahootan is ranked 178,073^rd in the world and 5^th in Iran for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 120.23 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.