The United Socialist States of The United Commune is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.5 billion United Communeans 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant United Communean economy, worth 30.3 trillion United Dollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. 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 8,650 United Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers, saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense, the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, and Leader's Twitcher account is typically used to share Tiger memes rather than government policy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The United Commune's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The United Commune is ranked 247,662^nd in the world and 8^th in Asterya for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 551.38 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.