The Consensus of Zesh is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Consensus with a fair hand, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 4.171 billion Zesh are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Core. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Scientific economy, worth a remarkable 1,811 trillion gigajoules a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 434,391 gigajoules, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

The jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism, it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast, aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice, and Zesh refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zesh's national animal is the lab rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Logic.

Zesh is ranked 8,075^th in the world and 6^th in Free Market Federation for Highest Poor Incomes, with 137,112.93 Standard Monetary Units.