The United Socialist States of NURSS is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 50 million NURSSians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped NURSSian economy, worth 1.48 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 29,630 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NURSS's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NURSS is ranked 321,663^rd in the world and 656^th in Horizon for Largest Black Market, with 2.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.