The Republic of United Kingdom and Southern Ireland is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, compulsory vegetarianism, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 15.869 billion United Kingdom and Southern Irelandians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient United Kingdom and Southern Irelandian economy, worth a remarkable 4,271 trillion pounds a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 269,182 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The United Kingdom and Southern Irelandian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access, it's illegal to be caught on tape, and trains and passengers alike are often late. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Kingdom and Southern Ireland's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

United Kingdom and Southern Ireland is ranked 238,323^rd in the world and 162^nd in New United Kingdom for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -8.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.