The Principality of The New Ruslands is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Grand Duke Misha Yudeliev with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 10.06 billion Ruslanders are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nizhny Novgorod. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.0%.

The all-consuming New Ruslandsian economy, worth 897 trillion Rubles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,262 Rubles, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands, and military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The New Ruslands's national animal is the Russian Desman, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Rus Orthodox Church.

The New Ruslands is ranked 105,213^th in the world and 4^th in Grinnellia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.26 law-abiding acts per hour.