The Republic of Universal State Formula is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its soft-spoken computers, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.739 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 5,601 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 723,842 Standard Monetary Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Being dead no longer has any benefits, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD, and the nation leads The North Pacific in per capita stalking. 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 232^nd in the world and 7^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 9,386 trillion Standard Monetary Units.