Red Star was originally a giant industrial enterprise derived from the giant Norilsk Nickel Mining Enterprises found in the Urals, a massive but mismanaged company on the verge of bankruptcy. Saved by the power of the Russian government and the huge Gazprom monopoly, Norilsk was later merged with several other machinery and automobile corporations to form a 'national champion' for the new Russian Theocracy in 2019. After the war Red Star became increasingly powerful in the administration and managed to squeeze favourable tariff rates for its products, allowing it to exploit 'labour prisoners' from Central Asia to manufacture a wide variety of medium-quality goods. Its technocratic management structure is good at organizing millions of workers and plants, but poor at research and design. These flaws have made Red Star dependent on extravagant 'designer guys' and Western think tanks, which has bred a paranoia in the upper echelons that Red Star will become a dinosaur again. Such paranoia, and Red Star's clumsy bureaucrats, have made its attempts at power-politics very heavy-handed.

Red Star builds ground vehicles, tanks, electro-mechanical parts, aircraft, large space structures, and is involved in mining, lumbering, oil refining, civil engineering, and chemical processing. It also has extensive real estate, banking, and transportation assets.

Red Star operates mostly in the Northern hemisphere, but has outposts in SE Asia. Red Star's close ties to the Russian military-industrial complex gives it the privilege of calling upon Interior Ministry soldiers to help it handle any unpleasant situations — such as the frequent riots at its indentured-labour mines.