The United Socialist States of Ksovalia is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 209 million Ksovalians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Ksovalian economy, worth 11.0 trillion Penks 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 Trout Farming, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 52,756 Penks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger, the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, people are often woken up by rubbish music, and senior professors are allowed to skip the wait at soup kitchens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ksovalia's national animal is the kestrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ksovalia is ranked 18,554^th in the world and 20^th in The Dominion of Order for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 5,203.76 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.