The Rosy Red Republics of Podria is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sisterly Leader Nadezhda Krupskaya with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.325 billion Podrian enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Doiregrad. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Podri economy, worth a remarkable 1,369 trillion Podrian Assembly Notes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 111,131 Podrian Assembly Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, and the nation refuses to provide international aid. Crime is totally unknown. Podria's national animal is the serpent, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Rosy Redism.

Podria is ranked 261,152^nd in the world and 215^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.25 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.