The Stormcrow Perihelion of Zouge is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Chief Zantac with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, barren, inhospitable landscape, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 30.827 billion Zougeans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zenith. The average income tax rate is 21.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Zougean economy, worth a remarkable 2,585 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,872 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool, oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds, the aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by Zougeans, and breaking rocks in the hot sun now involves using your head. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zouge's national animal is the ^-^, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Zouge is ranked 18,208^th in the world and 1^st in The Galaxy for Largest Black Market, with 201 trillion Standard Monetary Units.