The United Socialist States of Union of Texas federal republic is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 277 million Union of Texas federal republicians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Union of Texas federal republician economy, worth 8.07 trillion Texanoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Gambling. Average income is 29,129 Texanoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment, and real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Union of Texas federal republic's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Union of Texas federal republic is ranked 104,345^th in the world and 218^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,295.12 on the Gilded Widget Scale.