The Socialist-Syndicalists Union of Dockside Soviet is a massive, safe nation, ruled by General Commissioner Vladimir Zhiguli with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory vegetarianism, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.344 billion Dockside Soviets 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Socialist-Syndicalist Workers Dockyards. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.6%.

The strong Dockside Soviet economy, worth 80.2 trillion food coupons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 59,676 food coupons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 232,960 per year while the poor average 10,428, a ratio of 22.3 to 1.

The government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise General Commissioner Vladimir Zhiguli on Dockside Soviet's coulrophobia epidemic, scientists take credit every time it rains in Shadowport, and citizens are overwhelmed by beautiful simulacra. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dockside Soviet's national animal is the unemployed, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is state atheism.

Dockside Soviet is ranked 267,517^th in the world and 17^th in Shadowport for Highest Poor Incomes, with 10,428.55 Standard Monetary Units.