The Friendly Christian Republic of Russila is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Ross Lee Hickman III with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 5.227 billion Russilans 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 Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rossland. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Russilan economy, worth 650 trillion Russilan Bitcoins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 124,532 Russilan Bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

GP clinics are inundated by patients requesting prescriptions for alcohol, bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Russila's national animal is the Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Russila is ranked 9,150^th in the world and 435^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 425.98 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.