The Content Peoples of Umeria is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Helen D'Annain with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.772 billion Umerians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Agora. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Umerian economy, worth a remarkable 3,829 trillion euros a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 215,484 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, Agora Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years, Umerian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Helen D'Annain, and the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters. Crime is totally unknown. Umeria's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Umeria is ranked 730^th in the world and 10^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5,793.02 pounds of wildlife per square mile.