The Union of Technocratic Nations is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Head Director I-292149-4312-4141 with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.515 billion Terrans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of UTN-01. The average income tax rate is 83.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth 965 trillion PaciBits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 175,072 PaciBits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Those who sing the national anthem off-key have the key thrown away, drug-related crimes carry the death penalty, ghost regiments exist only on paper, and six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Technocratic Nations's national animal is the panda, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is State-Enforced Nihilism.

Technocratic Nations is ranked 13,608^th in the world and 1^st in Negative for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 83.84 Effective Tax Rate.