The People's Republic of Novaya Ruthenia is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 212 million Novaya Ruthenians 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 Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Novaya Ruthenian economy, worth 6.05 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 28,533 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies, motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the same 212 social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with Leader's every word on Twitcher. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novaya Ruthenia's national animal is the Lion of Galichina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Novaya Ruthenia is ranked 21,050^th in the world and 527^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.38 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.