Is the trivial ring regular?

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In algebraic geometry if $f: X \to Y$ is locally of finite presentation (where $X, Y$ are schemes) then smoothness of $f$ implies that for all $y \in Y$ the "geometric fiber" $\DeclareMathOperator{\Spec}{Spec} \Spec{\overline{\kappa(y)}} \times_{Y} X$ is regular.

If $y$ has no preimage under $f$ then the geometric fiber should be empty, so it is the trivial ring $\{0\}$. Is this ring considered to be regular? I guess technically all of its localizations are regular local.

(In other words, must every smooth morphism of Schemes be surjective?)

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The empty scheme is regular according to EGA IV.5.8.2. Accordingly, the zero ring is regular according to Bourbaki's AC.VIII.5 Exercice 6. (Of course, the point is that regularity is defined as some property for every point or for every prime ideal, resp.)