The Diplomatic Envoy of Podria in The Communist Bloc is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ambassador Constance Markievicz with a fair hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 10.047 billion Podrian diplomats love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Podrian Embassy in Scovnorod. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Podrian diplomatic economy, worth 68.7 trillion assembly notes 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 6,838 assembly notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Podria in The Communist Bloc has designated Podrian Embassy in Scovnorod as its capital city, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and the Federal Council of Podria in The Communist Bloc has been announced as the new Head of State. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Podria in The Communist Bloc's national animal is the serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pan-Leftist Solidarity.

Podria in The Communist Bloc is ranked 138,165^th in the world and 10^th in Transbian for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.