The Dominion of Umbraluz is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its enforced nudity, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 289 million Umbrans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Umbraluzian economy, worth 4.91 trillion Mammons 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, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese 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 16,989 Mammons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits, posters on 'Umbraluzian Values' advise against being proud of Umbraluz, the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, and school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Umbraluz's national animal is the Paramessium, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Umbraluz is ranked 203,723^rd in the world and 2^nd in Juram for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 786.71 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.