The Council Republic of Ushydu is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Oliver Archie with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.356 billion Ushyduans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Piruma. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ushyduan economy, worth 164 trillion Labour Units 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 Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 121,227 Labour Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, flags are commonly used as bonfire kindling, and the new coalition government has 99 problems and can't agree on how to fix one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Ushydu's national animal is the Yellow-backed Anaconda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ushydu is ranked 275,597^th in the world and 305^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -9.3 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.