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The Directorate of ZeroArchive is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Directorate Ida with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 6.974 billion Statarchivneist Officers 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of QuraisaEgatari Main Server. The average income tax rate is 51.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Statarceneist Officer economy, worth 154 trillion datas 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 Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 22,085 datas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every workday begins with group therapy, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy, and pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ZeroArchive's national animal is the bugs, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Children of Kat'herinists.

ZeroArchive is ranked 175,908^th in the world and 22^nd in Zero for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.