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The Orwellian Dictatorship of Zaharial is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Evan R Mahaur with an iron fist, and notable for its prohibition of alcohol, complete lack of prisons, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.819 billion Zahari 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zahar city. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Zaharian economy, worth 355 trillion Zahauroes 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. 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 195,178 Zahauroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Everyone apparently sends Evan R Mahaur hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the Zaharian military unleashed its biological weapons, vacationing Zahari expect to be treated as royalty, and summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaharial's national animal is the Cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Leaderalism.

Zaharial is ranked 24,535^th in the world and 12^th in Mitteleuropa for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,271.9 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.