The State of Upper Peninsula is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons and complete lack of public education. The hard-working, cynical population of 9.883 billion Upper Peninsulans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Welfare also on the agenda, while Law & Order and Spirituality receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The thriving Upper Peninsulan economy, worth 337 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 34,159 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 98,930 per year while the poor average 9,347, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed and all tariffs have been abolished. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Upper Peninsula's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Upper Peninsula is ranked 121,428^th in the world and 3^rd in Upper Peninsula for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 980.3 on the Gilded Widget Scale.