The Defenders of UDL is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mahaj with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, daily referendums, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.665 billion UDLians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden Bow. The average income tax rate is 30.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient UDLian economy, worth a remarkable 3,913 trillion UNIS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 136,519 UNIS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus, UDLian husbands are dead good at fathering kids, acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings, and political commentators say that Mahaj's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UDL's national animal is the Fenda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Defenderism.

UDL is ranked 257,788^th in the world and 7^th in Launching Point for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.