The Glorious Federation of Communist Volkstrad is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Chairman Valko Markov with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, avant-garde cinema, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 26.05 billion Volkstradis are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Azarod. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Volkstradi economy, worth a remarkable 5,713 trillion Volkstradi Marks a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 219,315 Volkstradi Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, legitimate job descriptions now include "smiling and waving", and overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Communist Volkstrad's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Communist Volkstrad is ranked 330,345^th in the world and 3^rd in Aeterna Publicae for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -12 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.