The Armed Republic of ZFE Defense Force is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.376 billion ZFE Defense Force Operatives 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 48.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped ZFE Defense Forcean economy, worth 49.8 trillion Shapas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 36,207 Shapas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZFE Defense Force's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ZFE Defense Force is ranked 246,978^th in the world and 3,225^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 28.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.