The Borderlands of Sturva is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, unlimited-speed roads, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.588 billion Sturvans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sturvan economy, worth 149 trillion bitcoins 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 93,835 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The logging industry is celebrating as tourists plaster Sturva with trees, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments, and children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sturva's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sturva is ranked 252,095^th in the world and 6^th in Basileia Rhomania for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.