Talk:Menagerie/@comment-160.3.10.104-20161023143307/@comment-27144409-20161106203947

Don't underestimate the potential of Russia. Their hardware has a less than bleeding edge reputation, but they aren't slouches in the STEM fields at the top.

For example, they got much closer to a functioning "Star Wars" program. There's a reason they were able to handle

The Kingdom might have the potential to be more advanced at this time, but only Atlas seems to constantly pushing the boundries. Russia and the Soviet Union certainly did that. Atlas is also cold at the north of the world like Russia, and Russia is better known to the general audience.

Atlas also resembles America in some ways.