The Federal Alliance of United Communal Burrow Republics is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The UCBR High Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.448 billion Burrowers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nelthastia. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The powerhouse Burrower economy, worth 718 trillion Unneeded Item Rations a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 131,838 Unneeded Item Rations, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends, and praying before a battle is a court-martial offence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Communal Burrow Republics's national animal is the Sarates, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

United Communal Burrow Republics is ranked 13,069^th in the world and 677^th in Balder for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.