The Federative Republic of Russian Peoples Union is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Boris Yeltsin with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 995 million Russians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sverdlovsk. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Russian Peoples Unionian economy, worth 115 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 led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 115,739 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile, smoking is banned in public areas, the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Russian Peoples Union's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Russian Peoples Union is ranked 12,701^st in the world and 967^th in The North Pacific for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 26.37 Bank.