The Free Land of Nostovya is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, free-roaming dinosaurs, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.507 billion Nostovyans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Nostovyan economy, worth a remarkable 4,111 trillion comforts 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 328,705 comforts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Nostovya City Times is sold out, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, and shady doctors seem to have impeccable records. Crime is totally unknown. Nostovya's national animal is the crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Nostovya is ranked 490^th in the world and 2^nd in NationStates for Healthiest Citizens, with 42.78 bananas ingested per day.