The Republic of Zarbon is a huge, safe nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 906 million Zarbonians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 49.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Zarbonian economy, worth 31.1 trillion zarbon dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,275 zarbon dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech, prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zarbon's national animal is the zarbon animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zarbon is ranked 128,074^th in the world and 2,629^th in Suspicious for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,343.97 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.