The Republic of UDNS is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 288 million Nighties are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of new new noir city. The average income tax rate is 56.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Nightian economy, worth 20.7 trillion Spriteses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,791 Spriteses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Professional athletes can't see balls amid the deluge of advertisements, Nighties submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, and burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UDNS's national animal is the tardigrade, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UDNS is ranked 35,544^th in the world and 121^st in The Free Nations Region for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,661.36 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.