The Eight Provinces of Zeswela is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Peter Zeswela with an even hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 3.734 billion Zeswelans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kuyburgh. The average income tax rate is 86.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zeswelan economy, worth 437 trillion Zeswela Dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,244 Zeswela Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside, police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom, and Peter Zeswela reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeswela's national animal is the Pigeon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Atheism.

Zeswela is ranked 21,780^th in the world and 308^th in the West Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 267.08 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.