The Republic of Ketovsky District is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, state-planned economy, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 703 million Ketovsky Districtians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Ketovsky Districtian economy, worth 67.3 trillion Ducats 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 a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. 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 95,716 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone, and beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ketovsky District's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ketovsky District is ranked 253,348^th in the world and 438^th in Novaya Zemlya for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -8 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.