The Scandinavian Union, officially the Union of Scandinavian Socialist Republics (USSR) is the largest country in Europe in terms of population and second largest in terms of area. It is a constitutionally a single party socialist state, ruled by the Socialist Parties of the Union of Scandinavian Socialist Republics(SPUSSR - pronounced Spu-Sir) since its foundation in 1921. Although the country is technically a union of 7 Scandinavian Socialist Republics (SSRs), the Baltic SSR, the Danish SSR, the Finnish SSR, the German SSR, the , Norwegian SSR, the Polish SSR and the , Swedish SSR, it is a highly centralized state.