The United Brigades of Urban Resistance Army is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by URA High Army Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-working, democratic population of 14.03 billion Resistors enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chicago Free Administration Center. The average income tax rate is 20.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Urban Resistance Armyian economy, worth 821 trillion Scrips a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,544 Scrips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urban Resistance Army's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Urban Resistance Army is ranked 131,899^th in the world and 6^th in The Phoenix Concordat for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 784.43 on the Gilded Widget Scale.