The Corrupt Utopia of Upper Southeast Corner is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Dark Leader with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, enforced nudity, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.571 billion Usexians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golden Chains. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Usexian economy, worth a remarkable 1,225 trillion black nuggets a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 219,927 black nuggets, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,989,465 per year while the poor average 2,901, a ratio of 685 to 1.

Citizens who become homeless are immediately executed, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in, and the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Usexian Desert. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Southeast Corner's national animal is the black dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Leaderism.

Upper Southeast Corner is ranked 329,529^th in the world and 7^th in XS IV for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 23.38 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.