The Armed Republic of Soviet Terran is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by President Fyodor Basargin with an even hand, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 20.298 billion Русские have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The tiny government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Education and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vladikosmos. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Soviet economy, worth a remarkable 5,530 trillion GNS a year, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 272,473 GNS, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,027,922 per year while the poor average 50,307, a ratio of 20.4 to 1.

Attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful, SOS from foreign ships mean "shoot on sight", people transfer their assets to bank accounts in Manamana before getting divorced, and graffiti artists make up a significant portion of the coal mining population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Soviet Terran's national animal is the Black Wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soviet Terran is ranked 2,438^th in the world and 108^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 762.58 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.