The Sovereign Socialist State of The Peoples United Commun is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Shawn Newir with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 2.003 billion United Peoples 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, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Peoples United Communian economy, worth 129 trillion Vals 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 Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 64,578 Vals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, Prime Minister Shawn Newir's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Peoples United Commun's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Religious Pluralism.

The Peoples United Commun is ranked 313,807^th in the world and 1,074^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 54 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.