The United States of Curtis Mayfield is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 8.34 billion Curtis Mayfieldians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chicago. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Curtis Mayfieldian economy, worth 846 trillion picks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,488 picks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings', it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon, children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, and commercials are consistently recorded in soft white rooms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Curtis Mayfield's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Curtis Mayfield is ranked 246,998^th in the world and 3^rd in Chicago for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 554.89 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.