The United Socialist States of Upeffa is a tiny, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10 million Upeffans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 59.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Upeffan economy, worth 262 billion florins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,204 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Leader is considering changing the Upeffan flag to one with more glitter, the child of a rich parent flip-flops between decadence and poverty, advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public, and grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upeffa's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Upeffa is ranked 95,714^th in the world and 16^th in The Middle Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 971.63 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.