The Friendly Christian Republic of Russila is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Ross Lee Hickman III with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 5.136 billion Russilans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rossland. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Russilan economy, worth 640 trillion Russilan Bitcoins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,613 Russilan Bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days, and politicians tend to jump ship to whichever party is currently leading in the polls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Russila's national animal is the Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Russila is ranked 17,935^th in the world and 630^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 8,494.86 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.