The People's Socialist Republic of Urgabah is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, hatred of cheese, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 35.996 billion Urgabahians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cornucopia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Urgabahian economy, worth an astonishing 13,517 trillion Uollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an amazing 375,532 Uollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's no cure or sympathy for the common cold, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urgabah's national animal is the Monitor Lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Urgabah is ranked 47^th in the world and 1^st in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 46,076.67 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.