The Dictatorship of Stectoss is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.162 billion Stectossians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Stectossian economy, worth 151 trillion Kopeks a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 130,132 Kopeks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 971,638 per year while the poor average 5,093, a ratio of 190 to 1.

There's more pink stuff on sale these days, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, there's nothing more Stectossian than revanchism, and urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stectoss's national animal is the Mastiff, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Stectoss is ranked 283,540^th in the world and 238^th in Empire of Great Britain for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.32 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.