The Ordered Coalition of Soviet Remnants is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chairman Bradley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, strictly enforced bedtime, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 25.098 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 4,743 trillion Iron Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 188,987 Iron Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Gear diplomacy is by the book, bike rage is all the rage, Jennifer Government is a bestseller, and the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year. 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 8,222^nd in the world and 315^th in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 25.1 billion capita.