The Republic of 38 Uma is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 1.534 billion 38 Umen are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 50.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming 38 Uman economy, worth 139 trillion monies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,770 monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Scrabble champions have been left scrambling for scraps, edutainment video games are taking 38 Uma's students to the next level, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, and tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 38 Uma's national animal is the card, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

38 Uma is ranked 63,947^th in the world and 297^th in Izern for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,597.68 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.