RyansWorld: Russia in the year 2017
From Future
By the year 2017, Russia will be a member of the Eurozone, the Schenegen Agreement, and return the national anthem to its pre-1917 version (retitled "God Save His People!") Economic growth will be at a steady 5% with unemployment between 6-8 percent. The crisis of the late-2000s recession will be long over by the year 2017. Vladimir Putin will be replaced by a young liberal (pro-American) radical named Muhammad Li (not to be confused with Dr. Muhammad Li whose studies made way for the worldwide television ban in the year 2040); a child born in Leningrad to a Chinese father and a Pakistani mother.
A government-owned ferry between Sitka, Alaska and Eastern Russia will be built under his adminstration that would be free of charge to the public (in addition to using wind and solar power). Eventually, this results in Canadamerica joining the Schenegen Agreement (but not the Eurozone or the United States of Europe) in the year 2039; eliminating the need for passports for the free ferry service. Similar to the France-Libya ferry, the service would require patrons to prepare for themselves for an overnight stay in a (less than world-class) stateroom. A global maglev train will connect Russia to Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, North America, Latin America, and South America.
Russia's first ever Wal-Mart (with Стены рынка appearing on all Russian Wal-Mart stores) will open on December 25, 2021 (exactly 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union). This historical moment would finally break the oligarchy established by the Russian uber-merchants in the 1990s and propel Russia into a fully free market environment. All Russian Wal-Mart HyperStore locations would include homeless shelters (that would provide the majority of the Wal-Mart staff in Russia), vendors selling classic Russian items (with the written permission of Wal-Mart management that can be revoked if the merchant is caught selling Communist or neo-Communist propaganda - selling Stalinist propaganda will count as two separate offences under Russian law), food courts selling both American and Russian cuisine (some serving them separately while others serving them as a kind of fusion Russian-American cuisine), and video arcades with Dance Dance Revolution (because that will become the most popular game in Russia by the 2020s).
