The Republic of 42 Uma is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.461 billion 42 Umen are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.0%.

The all-consuming 42 Uman economy, worth 147 trillion monies a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,902 monies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 289,301 per year while the poor average 28,000, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of 42 Uman Embarrassments. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 42 Uma's national animal is the card, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

42 Uma is ranked 112,230^th in the world and 523^rd in Izern for Highest Poor Incomes, with 28,000.55 Standard Monetary Units.