The People's Republic of Zaitseva is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 154 million Zaitsevans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zaitsevan economy, worth 6.65 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 43,204 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies, bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms, lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies, and children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zaitseva's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zaitseva is ranked 227,405^th in the world and 349^th in Astoria for Highest Food Quality, scoring 9.53 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.