The Armed Forces of Zulankan Outpost 117 is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 15.976 billion Zulankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 55.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Zulankan economy, worth 266 trillion labor certificates 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, Cheese Exports, and Trout Farming. 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 16,709 labor certificates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown. Zulankan Outpost 117's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zulankan Outpost 117 is ranked 83,778^th in the world and 1^st in Communist International for Most Beautiful Environments, with 589.53 pounds of wildlife per square mile.