The Hal-Hole of UNDER new MAN-age-MENT is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Tighten with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, deadly medical pandemics, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.354 billion UNDER new MAN-age-MENTians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Apartment. The average income tax rate is 32.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The UNDER new MAN-age-MENTian economy, worth 431 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,612 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The state believes that children are what you make of them, the fate of the world literally rests on Tighten's fingers, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, and murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UNDER new MAN-age-MENT's national animal is the Bird and its national religion is Fear.

UNDER new MAN-age-MENT is ranked 189,567^th in the world and 3^rd in Misanthropic Bloc for Most Politically Apathetic Citizens, with 47.8 Whatever.