The Federation of Upper Saint Pauli is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 660 million Upper Saint Paulites love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Administration, although Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moria. The average income tax rate is 64.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Upper Saint Paulian economy, worth 40.2 trillion Loonies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is 60,877 Loonies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In musicals everybody's a little bit racist, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, solid-gold toilets are Upper Saint Paulian prisons' least expensive furnishings, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Saint Pauli's national animal is the Loon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Upper Saint Pauli is ranked 276,245^th in the world and 955^th in Concord for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,449.33 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.