The Commonwealth of Umbraloth is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Carm with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.374 billion Umbralothians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luminae. The average income tax rate is 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Umbralothian economy, worth 156 trillion Zennies 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 65,994 Zennies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The children of Umbraloth are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, Umbralothians no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings, employers are keenest on employees who lack family values, and a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umbraloth's national animal is the Human Being, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secular Humanism.

Umbraloth is ranked 48,803^rd in the world and 6^th in Universal Dream Network for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.39 law-abiding acts per hour.