The Free Land of The Glorious Upper Peninsula is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.413 billion Glorious Upper Peninsulans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Glorious Upper Peninsulan economy, worth 187 trillion Dollars 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 19,914 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Glorious Upper Peninsula's national animal is the Wolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Glorious Upper Peninsula is ranked 65,454^th in the world and 392^nd in the Outback for Nicest Citizens, with 15.9 average smiles per day.