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Russia

#15 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Mikhail Mishustin

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
2,019:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Russia spends $2,019 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
64.2
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +20.8 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$36.5K
Median income: $10.1K
World Bank PPP 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$109B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$54M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.05% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$800M/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$1.8K

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$109B
5.9% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 (estimated)
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$1.8K
WHO Global Health Expenditure 2022
โณ
Life Expectancy
73.4 yrs
World Bank 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
2,019:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
136:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$800M
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
Estimated from civil science budget; medical research portion โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$54M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $800M medical research (global avg); 2.9B RUB ($32M) for trial infrastructure โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$5B
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
15% of GDP
IMF 2024
๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ
Fossil Fuel Subsidies/yr
$39B
IMF 2023 โ€” explicit subsidies

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
61,911,000
1917โ€“1987
Summed from 1 sourced government death ledger entry โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
5,580
FAS Nuclear Notebook 2024
๐Ÿชฆ
Civilian Deaths
500,000
Various: UN, Airwars, human rights organizations
๐Ÿ’ฅ
Countries Bombed
12
IISS, conflict databases

๐Ÿ’ฅ Countries Bombed

Afghanistan, Chechnya (internal), Georgia, Syria, Ukraine, Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Libya, Central African Republic

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Soviet communist democide
Rummel Soviet total through 1987; includes the civil-war and NEP periods and excludes battle deaths.
Period
1917โ€“1987
Deaths
61,911,000
rummel-midpoint

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
7.3
UNODC 2022
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
300
World Prison Brief 2024

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Russia Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix Russia's Score

Russia spends $109B/yr on military and $54M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

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