The People's Republic of The Micro Union is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Neo with an iron fist, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 9.467 billion Micro Unionians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Makasta. The average income tax rate is 67.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Micro Unionian economy, worth a remarkable 1,300 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 137,412 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Makasta to enjoy their national art, flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Micro Union's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is nekosim nyah.

The Micro Union is ranked 35,076^th in the world and 1^st in The Micro Union for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 196.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.