The Dominion of Umbraluz is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 184 million Umbrans 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 76.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Umbraluzian economy, worth 3.13 trillion Mammons 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 17,033 Mammons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits, posters on 'Umbraluzian Values' advise against being proud of Umbraluz, and the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umbraluz's national animal is the Paramessium, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Umbraluz is ranked 109,221^st in the world and 4^th in Juram for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 789.62 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.