The Commune of Ushastan is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Ame with an even hand, and renowned for its closed borders, disturbing lack of elderly people, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 1.332 billion Ushastanis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ushanta. The average income tax rate is 75.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Ushastanian economy, worth 135 trillion Ushes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 101,440 Ushes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They who do not work shall not eat, government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables, brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods, and dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ushastan's national animal is the Amepillar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ame-Chan Worship.

Ushastan is ranked 287,646^th in the world and 81^st in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -6.2 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.