The Four Pillars of Urali is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Arbiter Edvin Jaani with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.142 billion Uralicans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Muutosiki. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Uralic economy, worth 592 trillion jorbbas 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 188,545 jorbbas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The army lives rent-free in foreigners' heads and houses, popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, and thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Urali's national animal is the liminauroch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Juurmalu.

Urali is ranked 3,498^th in the world and 80^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Food Quality, scoring 228.03 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.