The Glorious Federation of Communist Volkstrad is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chairman Valko Markov with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, otherworldly petting zoo, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 20.718 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 Healthcare. 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 4,555 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 Book Publishing and Gambling. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 219,874 Volkstradi Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, doctors fax when they need facts fast, and it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander. 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 102,575^th in the world and 4^th in Aeterna Publicae for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,230.37 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.