The Vermillion Republic of Urmanian is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Shining Path with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 21.882 billion Sorrelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Flankfurt-am-Mane. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Sorrelian economy, worth a remarkable 6,987 trillion workbits 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, 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 an amazing 319,336 workbits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes, money grows on trees, the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism, and cute fluffy little Shining Paths are increasingly popular exotic pets. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Urmanian's national animal is the phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Harmonism.

Urmanian is ranked 293,664^th in the world and 21^st in Pony Lands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.29 law-abiding acts per hour.