The Tired Sentry at the Border of Mestovakia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Anechka Andreyevna Nikanorovna with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, vat-grown people, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.093 billion Mestovakians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novigrad. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Mestovakian economy, worth a remarkable 9,037 trillion Rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an amazing 310,645 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The numbers on the latest spending report are reaching stellar levels, resident physicians are said to have a silver scalpel in their hands, air fresheners are the most popular solution to gas leaks, and shoving people into lockers qualifies you for a ministerial position. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mestovakia's national animal is the Murska Lynx, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Myrianism.

Mestovakia is ranked 303,190^th in the world and 2,646^th in the Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,357.77 Standard Monetary Units.