The Sultanate of SOVIETrules is a mid-sized, genial nation, notable for its compulsory military service, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 50 million SOVIETrulesians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 49.2%.

The SOVIETrulesian economy, worth 2.64 trillion marks a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,804 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Resident physicians are said to have a silver scalpel in their hands, the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled SOVIETrules with a very polite populace, weekends are spent tilting at windmills, and schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SOVIETrules's national animal is the Gorilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SOVIETrules is ranked 78,451^st in the world and 152^nd in Starlight for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 2,341.19 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.