The Republic of Urial98 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.522 billion Urial98ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 92.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Urial98ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,891 trillion dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 251,459 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls, hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Urial98ian Liberator". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urial98's national animal is the bison, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Urial98 is ranked 17,769^th in the world and 1,055^th in Balder for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 299.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.