The Colony of Zucaldoneis is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Great Emperor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.898 billion Zucaldoneisians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Spirituality, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dominion's Reach. The average income tax rate is 34.8%.

The strong Zucaldoneisian economy, worth 481 trillion Trade coupons 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 166,079 Trade coupons, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations, the government-sponsored autobiography 'A The Great Emperor For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of The Great Emperor's supporters, police officers spend more time on calisthenics than actually catching criminals, and survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Zucaldoneis's national animal is the Bee, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Radical Christianity.

Zucaldoneis is ranked 52,463^rd in the world and 18,119^th in Chicken overlords for Most Extreme, scoring 30.96 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.