The United Socialist States of Union for Progress is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 174 million Good persons are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Union for Progressian economy, worth 8.54 trillion Linus 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 significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 49,071 Linus, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés, toddlers insist their pacifiers be autoclaved, only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00, and bizarre-looking creatures called 'Beardogs' dominate wildlife preserves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Union for Progress's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Union for Progress is ranked 330,961^st in the world and 104^th in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.