The Mazdayasna Commonwealth of Zebastani is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by PM Joseph Hadmirak with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, enslaved workforce, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.463 billion Zebastanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Zebastanian economy, worth 614 trillion Zelts a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 177,351 Zelts, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 760,565 per year while the poor average 26,470, a ratio of 28.7 to 1.

Politicians ponder for at least a minute when asked if they would like sugar in their tea, with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof, coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms, and bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Zebastani's national animal is the giraffe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zoroastrianism.

Zebastani is ranked 29,210^th in the world and 234^th in 10000 Islands for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,771.51 on the Gilded Widget Scale.