The Contamination Zone of West-Laostuja is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its restrictive gun laws, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.24 billion Healthy are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.4%.

The strong Healthy economy, worth 73.1 trillion denariis a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 58,967 denariis, with the richest citizens earning 7.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious, euthanasia is illegal, unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves, and chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. West-Laostuja's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

West-Laostuja is ranked 220,216^th in the world and 4,622^nd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 78.78 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.