The Ordered Coalition of Soviet Remnants is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Chairman Bradley with an iron fist, and notable for its aversion to nipples, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 25.004 billion Gears are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parousia. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Gear economy, worth a remarkable 4,717 trillion Iron Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 188,662 Iron Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, the military sees national borders more as guidelines than absolutes, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, and for 25 Iron Dollars tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Remnants's national animal is the Coalition Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Soviet Remnants is ranked 10,481^st in the world and 597^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 117 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.