The Sultanate of SOVIETrules is a tiny, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 8 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 Welfare. The average income tax rate is 54.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile SOVIETrulesian economy, worth 203 billion marks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,408 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, the government is spending millions on lawyers' fees trying to get Leader off a murder charge, and religious households enthusiastically use whips in private. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SOVIETrules's national animal is the Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SOVIETrules is ranked 103,293^rd in the world and 200^th in Starlight for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 864.87 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.