The Democratic Republic of Volstarn is a large, orderly nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 68 million Volstarnians 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 Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Volstarnian economy, worth 458 billion Starnmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 6,735 Starnmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Same-sex marriages are increasingly common, nudity is frowned upon, politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income, and every workday begins with group therapy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Volstarn's national animal is the Volstarnian ibex, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Volstarn is ranked 283,233^rd in the world and 4,957^th in The East Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.3 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.