The Hippy State of Zerophix is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, lack of airports, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 36.717 billion Zerophixians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. The income tax rate is 100%.

The large but stagnant Zerophixian economy, worth 667 trillion Shiny Beads a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 18,189 Shiny Beads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate, crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters, and the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Zerophix's national animal is the Pink Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zerophix is ranked 294,291^st in the world and 6,440^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.8 law-abiding acts per hour.