The Ordered Coalition of Soviet Remnants is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Chairman Bradley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, pith helmet sales, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 25.132 billion Gears are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Parousia. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Gear economy, worth a remarkable 4,703 trillion Iron Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 187,156 Iron Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gear diplomacy is by the book, bike rage is all the rage, Jennifer Government is a bestseller, and the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Remnants's national animal is the Coalition Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Soviet Remnants is ranked 23,966^th in the world and 1,104^th in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 5,176.12 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.