The Eastern Krai of Ztrana is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Alexey Borodin with a fair hand, and notable for its digital currency, disturbing lack of elderly people, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.055 billion Ztranans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Velikybeligorod. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Ztranan economy, worth 115 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 109,826 Euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 318,069 per year while the poor average 30,052, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, and fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ztrana's national animal is the Tundra Swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Ztrana is ranked 57,544^th in the world and 5^th in Arda en Estel for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,445.79 on the Gilded Widget Scale.