The Federation of Federated Ugasque Countries is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 2.774 billion Federated Ugasque Countriesians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 80.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Federated Ugasque Countriesian economy, worth 366 trillion deniers a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,966 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Federated Ugasque Countriesian tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios, the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system, and RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept. Crime is totally unknown. Federated Ugasque Countries's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Federated Ugasque Countries is ranked 285,771^st in the world and 6,917^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 0.24 flags saluted per person per day.