The Union of City States Nation is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by JR Ewing with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 18.178 billion City Staters have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reading. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient City States Nationian economy, worth a remarkable 7,380 trillion Lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 406,026 Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive, and the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. City States Nation's national animal is the Armadillo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Industrialism.

City States Nation is ranked 129,995^th in the world and 6,253^rd in the South Pacific for Highest Crime Rates, with 3.72 crimes per hour.