The United Socialist States of Uspalia is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 529 million Uspalians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 63.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Uspalian economy, worth 18.3 trillion lire 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 34,623 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old", and Uspalia has designated Uspalia City as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Uspalia's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Uspalia is ranked 49,361^st in the world and 244^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 183.71 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.