The Human Empire of The Underverse is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Control Council with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 11.344 billion Human Citizens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tau'ii Superstructure. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient imperial Underverse economy, worth a remarkable 3,209 trillion Monetary Base Units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 282,926 Monetary Base Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials, appliance stores are finding spy cameras embedded in their unboxed merchandise, worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, and the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Underverse's national animal is the Bacteria, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is synergetic atheism.

The Underverse is ranked 292,136^th in the world and 1^st in The Underverse for Most Primitive, scoring -866.93 on the Scary Big Number Scale.