The ឵឵឵឵ of Island Zero is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Z3 with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 14.169 billion Islanders enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Furnace. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Zeron economy, worth an astonishing 12,900 trillion bits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. 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 a breathtaking 910,489 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia, elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, military training in Island Zero emphasizes the tactical advantages of stabbing backs, and colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation. Crime is totally unknown. Island Zero's national animal is the tardigrade, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Island Zero is ranked 330,846^th in the world and 40^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Safest, scoring 2.68 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.