The Friendly Christian Republic of Russila is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Ross Lee Hickman III with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.21 billion Russilans 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 Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rossland. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Russilan economy, worth 645 trillion Russilan Bitcoins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,900 Russilan Bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is avowedly secular, the inside lane of every highway is for parked vehicles only, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and the nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Russila's national animal is the Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Russila is ranked 5,145^th in the world and 241^st in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 59.87 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.