The United Socialist States of Nugget Union is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Chairperson Nuggetov with an iron fist, and renowned for its aversion to nipples, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.549 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 147 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 99,905^th in the world and 1,830^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,112.88 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.