The Socialist Federation of Ciskavkazia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pochvenov with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.104 billion Ciskavkazians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Krasnogorod. The average income tax rate is 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ciskavkazian economy, worth 131 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 119,428 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visiting the best Ciskavkazian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, helicopter parenting is on the rise, burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, and RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ciskavkazia's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ciskavkazia is ranked 285,140^th in the world and 759^th in Carcassonne for Most Primitive, scoring -432.5 on the Scary Big Number Scale.