The Republic of Pradva is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Eternal President Katyusha with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.678 billion Pradvans 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 enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perm. The average income tax rate is 77.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Pradvan economy, worth 187 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 69,886 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies, Eternal President Katyusha has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances, Pradvan tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, and foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pradva's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Pradva is ranked 133,731^st in the world and 5^th in Siberia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 744.71 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.