The People's Republic of Socialist Refuge is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The compassionate, democratic population of 825 million Socialist Refugeans 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 Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The city of Capital. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Socialist Refugean economy, worth 84.1 trillion Rubles a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,920 Rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Moonshine has made a resurgence, NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, and mechanics are often exhausted by their work. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Refuge's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Socialist Refuge is ranked 273,590^th in the world and 990^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.7 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.