The Proletarian Republic of Soviet Chernarus is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by President Nikolai Medvedev with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 17.69 billion Chernarussians 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 morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Moscow. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Chernarussian economy, worth a remarkable 1,712 trillion Cherubles a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 96,817 Cherubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses', President Nikolai Medvedev panders to nontraditional families, people caught mistreating Soviet Chernarus's flag generally wind up in a great deal of pain, and reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soviet Chernarus's national animal is the Chernarussian Brown Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Soviet Chernarus is ranked 196,820^th in the world and 10,423^rd in Balder for Largest Black Market, with 518 billion Standard Monetary Units.