The Watchfires of UCS-1 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and ritual sacrifices. The humorless, devout population of 23.219 billion UCS-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.6%.

The powerhouse UCS-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,147 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,476 $$s, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 320,553 per year while the poor average 19,476, a ratio of 16.5 to 1.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, and people boast about their low income on their dating profiles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UCS-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UCS-1 is ranked 71,563^rd in the world and 1^st in United Corporate States for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 423.19 on the Clooney Contribution Index.