The Commonwealth of Ukterput is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, fear of technology, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 923 million Ukterputters 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tin. The average income tax rate is 22.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Ukterputter economy, worth 50.0 trillion Stegs 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 54,176 Stegs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers, family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, old age is the nation's leading method of execution, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Ukterput's national animal is the Dimetrodon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ukterput is ranked 170,597^th in the world and 5^th in Tushto for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,249.33 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.