The Holy Empire of Zmey Vostok is a large, efficient nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, restrictive gun laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 104 million Vostokis 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Zmey Vostokian economy, worth 10.4 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 100,274 rubles, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 403,812 per year while the poor average 16,649, a ratio of 24.3 to 1.

90% of active duty ZVAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, more and more people are signing up for the government party, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, and libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Zmey Vostok's national animal is the Evil Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Zmey Vostok is ranked 38,240^th in the world and 2^nd in Mundus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,209.67 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.