The World-Famous Singer of -Uta- is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, devout population of 9.232 billion -Uta-ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 44.2%.

The strong -Uta-ian economy, worth 549 trillion bellies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 59,485 bellies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, and local officials love to claim the protection of their Big Brother. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Uta-'s national animal is the backup dancer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

-Uta- is ranked 40,009^th in the world and 375^th in Remembrance for Largest Black Market, with 30.0 trillion Standard Monetary Units.