Russia

Too big for its own good

**Russia** is a country in the VU that is the largest in the world and spans two continents. Much like majority of the world's nations, the country fell under ASWS's Global Protection. Unlike most however, the country has frequently colaborated with the private military company in numerous projects and houses some of their most advanced computer server systems and robot prisons.

## Background

### Environment

Due to the country's immense size, the environment in Russia is vast including swamps, taigas and mountain ranges. One of its regions, Siberia, is known for both making up for over 70% of Russia's overall size, but also for its history and harsh winters.

### History

Prior to Buy N Large's creation, Russia was a relatively powerful country and was a potential superpower which on occasion caused tensions with other countries especially the United States. Much like most others, it eventually fell under Buy N Large control and drove the country into overconsumption and in turn caused the already rough living conditions to be worse and eventually the country was abandoned.

After some shinanigans involving a lone trash compacting robot and a probe designed to find new plant life on the planet, humans eventually returned to earth and in turn slowly rebuild as well as clean up the planet. Due to the sheer size of the country, it took far longer to fully rebuild and clean up.

When a private military company attacked and took over the United States in only 7 hours, the Russian population entered a state of panic as fears of a potential second cold war and even fears of a third world war. Said fears only became worse when the company, ASWS, announced their intentions to simply protect the world under their protection which could imply an invasion in mass. The government ensured that ASWS's occupation is not an invasion and is instead simple a "peace" agreement between Russia and the United States.

Fears of a potential second world war eventually die down as the population aclimate to the presence of ASWS. Though subsequent riots of ASWS's presence would soon arise every now and then.

## Cities

Russia has hundreds of cities within its borders, though some are more significant than others. Such as:

* Moscow, Capital city of Russia
* Saint Petersburg
* Vladivostok

### Computer Servers and robot prisons

Due to the extremely harsh climate of the region of Siberia, various computer servers and robot prisons were constructed. All of which are owned by ASWS.

Computer servers are mostly due to the environment acting as a natural way to cool down said servers or the very least supplement the cooling systems. Allowing ASWS to stroe an large amount of data with minimal upkeep in terms of cooling down the servers.

Its more popular use however is the construction of robot prisons, this is due to the harsh cold climate serving as the "fence" of such prisons and that any robot who manages to escape (as slim as it may be) would simply freeze up and cease function before they could cover any significant distance. Such prisons are also extremely secure and are equiped to easily contain a robot riot and is fully automous bar the transportation of robot prisoners.

## Military

Russia is a technologically advanced nation though nowhere as advanced as the United States. Despite this however their military is still very formidable. This military would later be bolstered by ASWS's own military.

## Tiriva

* Much like any other country, its depiction in the VU is simply a more advanced take on Russia. Though some aspects are unique to the VU depiction.
* The concept of robot prisons in Siberia is loosely inspired by the Gulag.
* Spitfire's design was made in Russia.