The Defenders of UDL is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mahaj with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 29.145 billion UDLians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden Bow. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.5%.

The frighteningly efficient UDLian economy, worth a remarkable 3,980 trillion UNIS 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 136,580 UNIS, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 526,134 per year while the poor average 24,386, a ratio of 21.6 to 1.

The nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, it is illegal to liberate slaves, and report cards now include a 'Pain Tolerance' grading column. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UDL's national animal is the Fenda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Defenderism.

UDL is ranked 20,296^th in the world and 1^st in Launching Point for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 104.85 on the Bus Surprisal Index.