The Empire of Zetox is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Great Gazoo with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.317 billion Zetoxians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gazoo City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Zetoxian economy, worth a remarkable 7,629 trillion Rupees a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 394,969 Rupees, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,153,156 per year while the poor average 11,659, a ratio of 270 to 1.

Parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports, truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills, books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy, and songs of praise to The Great Gazoo are filled with coded messages from the resistance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Zetox's national animal is the Donkey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Church of Zetox.

Zetox is ranked 332,437^th in the world and 5^th in Confederation of Sovereign Nations for Most Developed, scoring 39.85 on the Human Development Index.