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The Armed Republic of Rusivit is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Giovanni Conte with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 8.283 billion Rusivitians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rusivia. The average income tax rate is 79.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Rusivitian economy, worth 841 trillion Karrots a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,577 Karrots, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous, youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, discarded pennies litter the streets, and rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rusivit's national animal is the Rusivitian Hare, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Violetholicism.

Rusivit is ranked 13,246^th in the world and 15^th in Confederacy of Allied States for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,770.64 on the Societal Mobility Rating.