The Red Republic of Pertsjan is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman Artyenki with a fair hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.271 billion Pertsjanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tolbhuran. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Pertsjanian economy, worth a remarkable 3,840 trillion Virtual Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 222,391 Virtual Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!", the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, and drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pertsjan's national animal is the Ghost of Karl Marx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pertsjan is ranked 989^th in the world and 29^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 25,418.91 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.