The Flavor of Umami is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.449 billion Umami 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Umami City. The average income tax rate is 35.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Umami economy, worth 171 trillion tastes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 38,337 tastes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist, and Umami has designated Umami City as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umami's national animal is the MSG.

Umami is ranked 23,377^th in the world and 10^th in Japan for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring 1 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.