The Tribal Confederation of Zong Thaing is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Servant of the People with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, feral children, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 969 million Zong Thaingians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lisa. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Zong Thaingian economy, worth 65.2 trillion Lire 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 led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 67,240 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, and sewing needles are topping lists of safe kids' toys. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zong Thaing's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zong Thaing is ranked 15,149^th in the world and 157^th in 10000 Islands for Nicest Citizens, with 25.46 average smiles per day.