The Confederated City-States of The Underwood Industrial Empire is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Grand Admiral Underwood with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 18.369 billion UIE citizens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Underwood City. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse UIE economy, worth a remarkable 2,008 trillion UIE dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 109,345 UIE dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government agents scour baking periodicals for subversive recipes, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, and tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the The Underwood Industrial Empire Blood Tithe. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Underwood Industrial Empire's national animal is the cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Unitarian Universalism.

The Underwood Industrial Empire is ranked 76,777^th in the world and 1,334^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 22.13 kickbacks per hour.