The Republic of RUBP is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by mtDNA with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, vat-grown people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.702 billion RUBPians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of mitochondrial matrix. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse RUBPian economy, worth 385 trillion ATPS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 104,142 ATPS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small patches of desolate land across the world are part of RUBPian sovereign territory, airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance, and streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. RUBP's national animal is the mitochondrion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

RUBP is ranked 19,224^th in the world and 351^st in The Communist Bloc for Lowest Crime Rates, with 90.5 law-abiding acts per hour.