The Scientific Super Colliders of Vostrov is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by P M Kendrick Jovita Demetrius Andreas with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.947 billion Vostrovs love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Environment, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Site 17 of Large Hadron Super Collider. The average income tax rate is 99.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Vostrov economy, worth a remarkable 1,749 trillion Universal and Reliable Valentian Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 220,191 Universal and Reliable Valentian Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Vostrov language, and flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vostrov's national animal is the Efficient en Reliable Yet Cuddly Android, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism Amongst Many Other Religions.

Vostrov is ranked 28,761^st in the world and 41^st in The Free Nations Region for Most Politically Free, scoring 79.24 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.