The Borderlands of Zeskreviskania is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 213 million Zeskreviskanians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Zeskreviskanian economy, worth 8.95 trillion rubles 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 Information Technology, Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 42,036 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, elections have been outlawed, and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zeskreviskania's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Zeskreviskania is ranked 256,126^th in the world and 6,150^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.