The United Socialist States of Soviet Equalia is a huge, genial nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 446 million Soviet Equalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 80.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Soviet Equalian economy, worth 8.57 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 19,214 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They who do not work shall not eat, Soviet Equalia has designated Soviet Equalia City as its capital city, the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint, and criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Equalia's national animal is the Shiba Inu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soviet Equalia is ranked 176,140^th in the world and 479^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 104.5 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.