The Democratic People's Republic of Wostad is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 13.847 billion Wostadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wostad City. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Wostadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,834 trillion Leninade Bottle Caps a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 132,483 Leninade Bottle Caps, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar, a newly discovered small mammal's name translates into Wostadian as 'your finger, you fool', prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, and hordes of tourists are ruining the environment. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Wostad's national animal is the Mi-24, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Wostad is ranked 13,367^th in the world and 1^st in Communist and Socialist World Congress for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,643.19 on the Gilded Widget Scale.