The Sleepy Pack of USOM is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Holo and Rize with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 17.737 billion USOMians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Verdana. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse USOMian economy, worth a remarkable 1,487 trillion Apples a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, extremely specialized black market in Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 83,872 Apples, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Holo and Rize to meetings with foreign heads of state, hundreds of sailors ride the good ship Holo And Rize day after day, and running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. USOM's national animal is the owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Holo.

USOM is ranked 294,619^th in the world and 11,375^th in Balder for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -11.69 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.