The United Socialist States of THE LIFTIST UNION is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.158 billion LIFTIST UNIONians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the World. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving LIFTIST UNIONian economy, worth 179 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 83,392 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés, disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire, the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in the World for fear of causing a fuss, and Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. THE LIFTIST UNION's national animal is the panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

THE LIFTIST UNION is ranked 5,941^st in the world and 78^th in The Leftist Assembly for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94.94 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.