The Experimental State of NKVE Administrative Zone is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, state-planned economy, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.749 billion Specimens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish NKVE Administrative economy, worth 211 trillion Sulfur Mustards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 31,274 Sulfur Mustards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The term "Native Specimen" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority, the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, and the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NKVE Administrative Zone's national animal is the Native, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NKVE Administrative Zone is ranked 168,964^th in the world and 119^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Largest Black Market, with 821 billion Standard Monetary Units.