The Most Serene Republic of Zlatibova is a huge, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, compulsory vegetarianism, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 542 million Zlatibovans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zlatibovan economy, worth 21.9 trillion Zlatibovan Rubles 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. 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 40,344 Zlatibovan Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, all alcohol is banned, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zlatibova's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Zlatibova is ranked 120,463^rd in the world and 13^th in Edmundian Empire for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,608.4 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.