The High Athelingric of Zasolace is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.74 billion Zasolaceans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 53.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Zasolacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,614 trillion pounds 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 184,682 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins, and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zasolace's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Zasolace is ranked 37,601^st in the world and 622^nd in Snep for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 2,355.96 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.