The Soviet Socialist Republic of Pridneprovye is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Viktor Reznov with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.095 billion Pridneprovians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kharkiv. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pridneprovian economy, worth 678 trillion Russian Roubles 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 133,145 Russian Roubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, public parks are littered with cigarette butts, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pridneprovye's national animal is the Brown Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodoxy.

Pridneprovye is ranked 20,604^th in the world and 127^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 8,255.09 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.