The United Socialist States of UNIOS is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 411 million UNIOSians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hridayam. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong UNIOSian economy, worth 34.8 trillion Nayas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 84,728 Nayas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft', it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and weekends are spent tilting at windmills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UNIOS's national animal is the Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UNIOS is ranked 49,132^nd in the world and 585^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 150.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.