The United Republic of Zeritae is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Minare Johanson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.845 billion Zeritans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Renaek. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Zeritan economy, worth a remarkable 1,979 trillion Derndis 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 133,346 Derndis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers, toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan, the government is spending more on exports to Brasilistan than it's receiving from tariffs on the imports, and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Zeritae. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeritae's national animal is the Harakell, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zeritae is ranked 289,609^th in the world and 1^st in Nitrepza for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -25.23 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.