The Democratic People's Republic of Sachalin is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Shagidzyanov Yaroslav with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.085 billion Sachalinis are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kremlev. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.0%.

The all-consuming Sachalini economy, worth 112 trillion Sachalin Rubles 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, broadly diversified black market in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an impressive 103,372 Sachalin Rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 346,936 per year while the poor average 22,857, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts, billions of Sachalin Rubles are being poured into a space program, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Sachalinis, and a century of peace does not preclude peace negotiations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sachalin's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Sachalin is ranked 72,249^th in the world and 3^rd in Raspberry Commune for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 48,584.9 Standard Monetary Units.