The Republic of Pestovsky District is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and national health service. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 558 million Pestovsky Districtians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 30.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Pestovsky Districtian economy, worth 43.5 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 77,898 Ducats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Legend has it Leader's shower singing echoes through the halls of government, Pestovsky Districtian Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, and the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pestovsky District's national animal is the Bear, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Pestovsky District is ranked 54,849^th in the world and 34^th in Novaya Zemlya for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,714.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.