The State of Ust Aldan is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, disturbing lack of elderly people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 38.269 billion Ust Aldanians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The enormous, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.4%.

The very strong Ust Aldanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,342 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Soda Sales. Average income is 35,089 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 145,805 per year while the poor average 5,528, a ratio of 26.4 to 1.

Ust Aldan has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ust Aldan in an international press conference, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Ust Aldan's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ust Aldan is ranked 247,848^th in the world and 600^th in Ancient Lands for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 17,404.26 Standard Monetary Units.