The Colony of Zone XA-258 is a massive, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 1.198 billion zoners 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 Welfare, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Area A-1. The average income tax rate is 64.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Zone XA-258ian economy, worth 21.7 trillion Energy Crystals 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. 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 18,102 Energy Crystals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend, for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate, biology and religious education classes have recently been merged, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zone XA-258's national animal is the Cyber Elf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zone XA-258 is ranked 212,883^rd in the world and 5^th in Ipomoea for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4.24 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.