The Mind-Killer of UPC is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by the Illustrious UPC with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.049 billion Radiants 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urithiru. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Radiant economy, worth 375 trillion Diamond Broams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. Average income is 74,468 Diamond Broams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Builders across UPC are blocked up with orders for new public loos, prison visits increase substantially during election years, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, and flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UPC's national animal is the Windspren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of Honor.

UPC is ranked 312,477^th in the world and 1,263^rd in Europeia for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -11.4 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.