The Watchfires of UCS-1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, smutty television, and frequent executions. The humorless, devout population of 23.148 billion UCS-1ians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.3%.

The powerhouse UCS-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,085 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,082 $$s, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 319,993 per year while the poor average 18,275, a ratio of 17.5 to 1.

Both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade, pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, and the new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UCS-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UCS-1 is ranked 105,906^th in the world and 1^st in United Corporate States for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 42,068.74 Standard Monetary Units.