The Empire of Greater Zaxar is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.776 billion Zaxars 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Zaxarian economy, worth 120 trillion Wampum Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 25,218 Wampum Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters, the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme, the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice, and prudishness is on the way out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Greater Zaxar's national animal is the Aurelian Sheesh, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Greater Zaxar is ranked 127,211^th in the world and 167^th in Eurth for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,382.73 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.