The Empire of Utsukushima is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Ryujin Aosora with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, otherworldly petting zoo, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.323 billion Utsukushimajin love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kyosora. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Utsukushimajin economy, worth 674 trillion Kins a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,971 Kins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most pop videos prominently feature the Utsukushimajin flag, parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions, military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives, and the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Utsukushima's national animal is the Humble Red Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Taiyokoism.

Utsukushima is ranked 27,112^th in the world and 12^th in Poschomenia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,032.76 on the Gilded Widget Scale.