The Republic of Ust-Bolsheretsky District is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, zero percent divorce rate, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 500 million Ust-Bolsheretsky Districtians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 65.6%.

The Ust-Bolsheretsky Districtian economy, worth 29.4 trillion Ducats 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, 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 58,766 Ducats, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Ust-Bolsheretsky Districtian weed picker are way up, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, and it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ust-Bolsheretsky District's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ust-Bolsheretsky District is ranked 260,079^th in the world and 562^nd in Novaya Zemlya for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.6 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.