The Most Serene Republic of Zimblo is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 235 million Zimbloans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zimbloan economy, worth 6.88 trillion zimbles a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 29,276 zimbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, diminutive Zimbloan generals are feared for their aggressiveness, and organ donation rates have hit a new low. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zimblo's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zimblo is ranked 168,725^th in the world and 1,081^st in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 57.88 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.