The Franco-British Union of United Democratic Christian States is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Allard Lécuyer with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, avant-garde cinema, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.767 billion JEFFians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dieppe. The average income tax rate is 36.7%.

The frighteningly efficient United Democratic Christian Statesian economy, worth a remarkable 3,854 trillion Dieppens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 205,364 Dieppens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Gay couples have to travel to Brancaland to find a church that will actually let them wed, balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists, lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, and travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air United Democratic Christian States flights to avoid the pay lavatories. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Democratic Christian States's national animal is the Jellyfish, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is JEFFism.

United Democratic Christian States is ranked 7,513^th in the world and 4^th in Sol Aeternalis for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 467.89 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.