The Republic socialist of Understar is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Perry Alinol with an even hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, state-planned economy, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 1.916 billion Understarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of andrew star. The average income tax rate is 86.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Understarian economy, worth 270 trillion undes dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 141,092 undes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Museums offer moralization or your money back, urban planners beg for just one more lane before bedtime, the nation's war memorials are being torn down and replaced with peace gardens, and the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Understar. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Understar's national animal is the anomalies, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Islam.

Understar is ranked 12,656^th in the world and 200^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 104 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.