The Republic of Ump242 is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.894 billion Ump242ians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 51.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ump242ian economy, worth 925 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 189,194 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

School teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, and the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ump242's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Ump242 is ranked 22,862^nd in the world and 1,338^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,645.58 on the Gilded Widget Scale.