The Holy Tsardom of The Greater Imperial Russian Empire is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Tsar Ivan Pavlovich Volkov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.271 billion Russians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moscow. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Russian economy, worth 625 trillion Russian Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 99,822 Russian Rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 347,818 per year while the poor average 20,858, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

The government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore, back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation, pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers, and parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Greater Imperial Russian Empire's national animal is the Eurasian Brown Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

The Greater Imperial Russian Empire is ranked 27,004^th in the world and 27^th in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,048.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.