The Empire of Galactic Ukraine is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Mara Yanovna with a fair hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 12.771 billion Galactic Ukraineans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Kyiv. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The powerhouse Galactic Ukrainean economy, worth a remarkable 1,057 trillion Ukrainian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 82,806 Ukrainian Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

There is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, airport security is provided by private companies, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, and Mara Yanovna has just been declared ruler of Galactic Ukraine in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Galactic Ukraine's national animal is the Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Galactic Ukraine is ranked 193,026^th in the world and 993^rd in Europe for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -3.16 on the Clooney Contribution Index.