The Republic of Universal State Formula is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.382 billion citizens of Universal State Formula are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City Prime. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Universal State Formula economy, worth a remarkable 4,462 trillion Standard Monetary Units a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 699,165 Standard Monetary Units, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

International humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, and pro-democracy regime change has been avoided. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Universal State Formula's national animal is the Leviathan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Universal State Formula is ranked 168,906^th in the world and 7,697^th in The North Pacific for Most Pro-Market, scoring -63.22 on the Rand Index.