The Grand Duchy of Zubrowlitz is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, soft-spoken computers, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 256 million Zubrowians 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, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zubrowlitz economy, worth 16.7 trillion Zubrow Marks 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 65,372 Zubrow Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

To 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase, the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, and popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zubrowlitz's national animal is the Chamois, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zubrowlitz is ranked 192,297^th in the world and 642^nd in 10000 Islands for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -4.9 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.