The United Socialist States of The Peoples United Commun is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 504 million United Peoples are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 83.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Peoples United Communian economy, worth 21.5 trillion Vals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 42,664 Vals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer, and the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Peoples United Commun's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Peoples United Commun is ranked 74,852^nd in the world and 701^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,448.64 on the Gilded Widget Scale.