The Constitutional Tsardom of Ztrana is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Alexei II with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.568 billion Ztranans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Velikiy Belogorod. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ztranan economy, worth 372 trillion Davats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 144,909 Davats, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,230,257 per year while the poor average 3,076, a ratio of 400 to 1.

Rural Ztranans stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities, official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis, farting etiquette is taught in schools, and the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under. Crime is well under control. Ztrana's national animal is the Ztranan Brown Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ztranan Orthodoxy.

Ztrana is ranked 197,616^th in the world and 107^th in Valaryia for Most Patriotic, with 7.89 flags saluted per person per day.