The Soviet Socialist Republics of The Vostok is a huge, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 670 million proletarians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yakutsk. The average income tax rate is 78.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Vostok economy, worth 18.6 trillion Soviet rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is 27,756 Soviet rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, Leader goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses, people can often be seen driving to work in war-surplus tanks, and a cat may look at a king and a dude can look at an ass. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Vostok's national animal is the polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Vostok is ranked 210,698^th in the world and 5^th in The Ostblock for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -4 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.