The Rogue Nation of Utopia Prime States is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sovereign with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.204 billion Utopia Prime Statesians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mesopotamia. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Utopia Prime Statesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,205 trillion Gold coins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,139 Gold coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

"Sovereign got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, when you fly on Air Utopia Prime States you win a seat or you die, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, and prudishness is on the way out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Utopia Prime States's national animal is the horse, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Melchizedek.

Utopia Prime States is ranked 261,936^th in the world and 7^th in Ancient for Nicest Citizens, with 0.79 average smiles per day.