The United Kingdom of Socialist Test 480 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.597 billion Socialist Test 480ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Socialist Test 480ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,038 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 225,876 Euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 654,161 per year while the poor average 61,806, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

A suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, nobody likes bad boys any more, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, and pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Socialist Test 480's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Socialist Test 480 is ranked 27,930^th in the world and 1,229^th in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,253.25 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.