Russia (The Fires of God)

Russia, officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a single-party autocratic state, and is the largest country in the world by area. Extending across the entirety of northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans nine time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Persia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.