The Holy Empire of Zah Ha Doom is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Riada Leumas with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 29.413 billion Zah Ha Doomians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zanarius. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zah Ha Doomian economy, worth a remarkable 4,708 trillion latnums 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 mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 160,073 latnums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Zah Ha Doomian soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted, and the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zah Ha Doom's national animal is the house cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Followers of the Way.

Zah Ha Doom is ranked 2,455^th in the world and 1^st in Quadrant 14 for Lowest Crime Rates, with 136.9 law-abiding acts per hour.