The Ukrainian SSR of Pripyat Industries is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate population of 21.566 billion Chernobylites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of East Pripyat. The average income tax rate is 98.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Chernobylian economy, worth a remarkable 3,023 trillion Roubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 140,199 Roubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Resident physicians are said to have a silver scalpel in their hands, citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz, you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence, and funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pripyat Industries's national animal is the Elephant Foot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Liquidator Legacy.

Pripyat Industries is ranked 9,994^th in the world and 1^st in Ukraine for Most Cultured, scoring 114 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.