The Far-Eastern State of Svastiya is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Ivo Voskresenski with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The compassionate, devout population of 1 billion Svastiyans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volkanova. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The powerhouse Svastiyan economy, worth 99.2 trillion Svastiyan Kalinals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 99,173 Svastiyan Kalinals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances, stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as Svastiyan humor gets, and male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Svastiya's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Svastiya is ranked 70,501^st in the world and 1,048^th in The North Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 27.46 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.