The United Socialist States of UNIOS is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, prohibition of alcohol, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 341 million UNIOSians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hridayam. The average income tax rate is 84.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong UNIOSian economy, worth 27.4 trillion Nayas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 80,389 Nayas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, the police double as repo men, and every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UNIOS's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UNIOS is ranked 110,381^st in the world and 192^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,016.57 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.