The Allied States of Undertake16 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 3.318 billion Undertake16ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 54.7%.

The strong Undertake16ian economy, worth 165 trillion tails a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,770 tails, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, the studies of art and philosophy are banned, and women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Undertake16's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Undertake16 is ranked 308,264^th in the world and 16,551^st in Lazarus for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -8.38 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.