The Shamanic Guardianship of Urdeo is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Karahsati of the High Night with an even hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 2.493 billion Urdeoans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Black Tear. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Urdeoan economy, worth 319 trillion Rimas 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 128,337 Rimas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records, molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, bike rage is all the rage, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urdeo's national animal is the Dodo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Animism.

Urdeo is ranked 7,623^rd in the world and 15^th in Talonia for Nicest Citizens, with 36.77 average smiles per day.