The Commonwealth of UnderCouch is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its national health service, public floggings, and daily referendums. The compassionate, devout population of 919 million UnderCouchians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Washrington DC. The average income tax rate is 34.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong UnderCouchian economy, worth 58.5 trillion Milkrings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,660 Milkrings, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society, parents dread their examinations more than their children, and many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UnderCouch's national animal is the Dustbunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UnderCouch is ranked 36,259^th in the world and 103^rd in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Food Quality, scoring 47.71 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.