The Republika of Novy Vostok is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Aleksander Włodzimierowicz Pawłow with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic population of 2.848 billion Wostokecs are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wostok. The average income tax rate is 24.1%.

The Wostokski economy, worth 188 trillion Protrichskan rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 66,081 Protrichskan rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, and undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novy Vostok's national animal is the square, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Squarism.

Novy Vostok is ranked 65,884^th in the world and 3^rd in Squareworld for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 50,155.94 Standard Monetary Units.