The State of Zur High is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 28.536 billion Zur Highians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Industry, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 63.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zur Highian economy, worth 960 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Soda Sales, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,644 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zur High's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zur High is ranked 60,770^th in the world and 1^st in St Peter Island for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,782.89 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.