The United Kingdom of Carborundum is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 10.683 billion Carborundumians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leeds. The average income tax rate is 74.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Carborundumian economy, worth a remarkable 1,535 trillion Carbs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 143,763 Carbs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Carborundum's national animal is the Carbot, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Deism.

Carborundum is ranked 3,419^th in the world and 156^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 200 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.