The House of Umber is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Greatjon Umber with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.103 billion Umbers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Last Hearth. The average income tax rate is 47.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Umber economy, worth 72.9 trillion silver stags a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 34,670 silver stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed, judges are big know-it-alls, family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, and songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umber's national animal is the giant and its national religion is the old gods.

Umber is ranked 97,399^th in the world and 29^th in Westeros for Most Politically Free, scoring 67.33 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.