It would be a small family, an almost equal number of men and women, all of who would have had at least 9 years of schooling, most of who would be employed, enjoy good health and fairly happy.

Most of them would belong to an orthodox christian religious sect and attend church only rarely. But they're active sports lovers, known especially for their achievements in air games.

Most would speak Ukrainian or Russian, but some would speak Romanian, Polish or Hungarian. Most are avid cinema goers.

They eat mainly corn. oats and indigenous 'coarse' grains and grow most of their own vegetables.

For more, see: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/up/ and follow the links from there.

One clear explanation of 'geopolitics' that I found is by Greg Cruey at: http://goasia.about.com/od/countriesaz/a/asiadefined.htm, where he says: "Geopolitical units have replaced continents in the public mind. The Middle East, for example, extending from Iran through the Arabian Peninsula and across North Africa, is not a continent. Algeria is in the Middle East, and on the continent of Africa. Iran is also in the Middle East, but on the continent of Asia. The middle East is not unique in this; terms like "Central America" and "Latin America" are both intended to replace geographic categories by using criteria other than just geography. And until after WWII, Southeast Asia was an unthought of idea: Burma and Thailand were "Greater India" and Vietnam and Cambodia were Indo-China. Geography may not change much, but time and politics seem to change how we interpret it."