The Reaper of UPC is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Darrow with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory vegetarianism, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 8.856 billion Radiants are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urithiru. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Radiant economy, worth a remarkable 1,089 trillion Diamond Broams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 123,013 Diamond Broams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UPC's national animal is the Windspren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of Honor.

UPC is ranked 14,540^th in the world and 162^nd in Europeia for Most Cultured, scoring 98 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.