The Republic of ZMC30 is a very large, safe nation, notable for its vat-grown people, ban on automobiles, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 371 million ZMC30ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 38.4%.

The strong ZMC30ian economy, worth 22.2 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,961 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Restaurants have added Molotov cocktails to the menu, graffiti graces every city's streets, the love has gone in ZMC30, and attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZMC30's national animal is the penguin, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

ZMC30 is ranked 85,060^th in the world and 5^th in RegionZ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 112.61 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.