The Republic of Ummat al-Salam is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 354 million Ummatis are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gensokyo. The average income tax rate is 57.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Ummatic economy, worth 22.7 trillion Ummati Dollars a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 64,234 Ummati Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages, the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Ummat al-Salam' is a smash hit, charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, and there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ummat al-Salam's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ummat al-Salam is ranked 76,125^th in the world and 5^th in Commonwealth of Democratic States for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,291.2 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.