The Community of URST is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 7 million URSTians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 58.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fair URSTian economy, worth 188 billion URSTS a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,862 URSTS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget, abattoirs are struggling with the directive to 'wait until the animal dies of a ripe old age', idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs, and the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on URST. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. URST's national animal is the Bingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

URST is ranked 167,782^nd in the world and 474^th in The Communist Bloc for Smartest Citizens, with 27.64 quips per hour.