The State of Chernaya Zvezda is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Yasmin Dias-Matos with a fair hand, and notable for its vat-grown people, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.363 billion Chernaya Zvezdais are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Jerusalem. The average income tax rate is 52.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Chernaya Zvezdai economy, worth 150 trillion Dengis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 63,765 Dengis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Chinchilla has a hungry look, children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school, artists are pillars of society, and the nation leads the South Pacific in per capita stalking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Chernaya Zvezda's national animal is the Chinchilla.

Chernaya Zvezda is ranked 25,180^th in the world and 1,282^nd in the South Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 74.9 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.