The United Socialist States of Ubbyce Wes is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 384 million Ubbyce Wesians 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 72.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ubbyce Wesian economy, worth 6.06 trillion marks 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, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. 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 15,781 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The death penalty has been reintroduced, it's best not to ask what goes into Ubbyce Wes City Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices, biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements, and builders across Ubbyce Wes are blocked up with orders for new public loos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ubbyce Wes's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ubbyce Wes is ranked 72,107^th in the world and 55^th in Hell for Lowest Crime Rates, with 69.87 law-abiding acts per hour.