The Bundesrepublik of Royal Usha is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Bundeskanzler Michael Lanzer with an even hand, and renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 26.718 billion Ushans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Andreasburg. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Royal Ushan economy, worth a remarkable 5,033 trillion Usha Marks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 188,375 Usha Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen, and drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Royal Usha's national animal is the Ushan Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Royal Usha is ranked 20,174^th in the world and 20^th in KAISERREICH for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,172.59 on the Clooney Contribution Index.