The Republic of Universal State Formula is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.2 billion citizens of Universal State Formula are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City Prime. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Universal State Formula economy, worth a remarkable 6,025 trillion Standard Monetary Units 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 a breathtaking 734,816 Standard Monetary Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads, citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon, power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, and high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Universal State Formula's national animal is the Leviathan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Universal State Formula is ranked 202,964^th in the world and 8,102^nd in The North Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 7.67 Obesity Rate.