The Prospering Empire of New Ziah is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Emperor Leonardo II with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 6.862 billion Zians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, with Defense, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Zian economy, worth a remarkable 1,804 trillion qullers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 262,984 qullers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,020,908 per year while the poor average 46,374, a ratio of 22.0 to 1.

Online tourism reviews of New Ziah are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar, teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes, and the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. New Ziah's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Any.

New Ziah is ranked 7,802^nd in the world and 168^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 14,900.58 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.