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The Community of Zaeth is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its digital currency, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 395 million Zaethians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tower Hills. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Zaethian economy, worth 24.2 trillion bunnies 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Soda Sales. 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 61,327 bunnies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, the government builds houses for foreign newcomers, science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns, and choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?". Crime is totally unknown. Zaeth's national animal is the Plesiosaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zaeth is ranked 123,581^st in the world and 7^th in Swallowtail for Highest Average Incomes, with 61,327.99 Standard Monetary Units.