The Holy Empire of Ustallaa is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 651 million Ustallaans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capybaraastan. The average income tax rate is 48.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ustallaan economy, worth 38.2 trillion Ustallaananas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,748 Ustallaananas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop, the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams, all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, and owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ustallaa's national animal is the Capybara, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ustallaa is ranked 140,012^th in the world and 2,806^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 69.81 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.