The Community of Zedrze is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and zero percent divorce rate. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.905 billion Zedrzeans 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 24.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Zedrzean economy, worth 653 trillion zronas a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 167,235 zronas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, 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 capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zedrze's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.
Zedrze is ranked 121,386th in the world and 2,831st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,654.73 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.
National Happenings
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Zedrze was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Developed, Most Patriotic, Highest Disposable Incomes, and Highest Poor Incomes and the Top 10% for Most Inclusive.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year.
- : Following new legislation in Zedrze, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews.
