The United Socialist States of Pusid Ughter is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.769 billion Pusid Ughterians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Swan City. The average income tax rate is 61.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Pusid Ughterian economy, worth 247 trillion lire 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 Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 an impressive 139,839 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', commemoration of the Great the West Pacific War costs almost as much as the war itself, Leader is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, and factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Pusid Ughter's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pusid Ughter is ranked 161,891^st in the world and 2,059^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 246.21 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.