The United Socialist States of Nugget Union is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairperson Nuggetov with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.617 billion Nuggeters are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuggetist. The average income tax rate is 38.1%.

The all-consuming Nuggeter economy, worth 154 trillion nuggets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 95,529 nuggets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

The government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores, bargain hunters descend on disaster zones for a quick spot of grocery shopping, government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders, and the police insist that racism does not exist. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nugget Union's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Islam.

Nugget Union is ranked 268,379^th in the world and 4,685^th in The East Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -8.94 on the Clooney Contribution Index.