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The Zuper Zealous Zoologist of Zany Zanes is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Zenthos with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 14.538 billion Zany Zanesians 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 enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pop. The average income tax rate is 75.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Zany Zanesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,170 trillion Z's 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 80,537 Z's, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children prefer to begin their day with push-ups rather than breakfast, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, Zany Zanesian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zany Zanes's national animal is the Zebra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Zen.

Zany Zanes is ranked 324,545^th in the world and 81^st in The Bar on the corner of every region for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -14.63 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.