The United Socialist States of Zorvetsk is a small, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 36 million Zorvetskians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 58.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Zorvetskian economy, worth 1.18 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 32,751 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traffic tickets are punishable by 9000 push-ups, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and children are afraid to go out at night due to the ubiquity of hardened jaywalkers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Zorvetsk's national animal is the Brown Bear.

Zorvetsk is ranked 119,411^th in the world and 624^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,207.84 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.