The Knight named of Zeva is a titanic, cultured nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, enslaved workforce, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.702 billion Zevans 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.5%.

The all-consuming Zevan economy, worth a remarkable 1,300 trillion lire 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. 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 111,156 lire, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, and citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeva's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Zeva is ranked 55,902^nd in the world and 1^st in The Macro Union for Most Developed, scoring 76.01 on the Human Development Index.