The Proletarian Dictatorship of Old Vyanka is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Vladimir Lenin with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, otherworldly petting zoo, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.259 billion Old Vyankans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Volga City. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Old Vyankan economy, worth 744 trillion Labour Vouchers 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 Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 174,709 Labour Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program. Crime is totally unknown. Old Vyanka's national animal is the Boar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Old Vyanka is ranked 186,170^th in the world and 582^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -4 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.