The Commonwealth of Severnyy Railway Soviet is a mid-sized, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 94 million Severnians 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, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Severnyy Railway Sovietian economy, worth 4.89 trillion highrails 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 51,987 highrails, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft', victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, and the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Severnyy Railway Soviet's national animal is the locomotive, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Severnyy Railway Soviet is ranked 220,120^th in the world and 480^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.1 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.