The United Kingdom of Union of British and Irish Republics is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sylvia Winstanley MP with an even hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.945 billion British are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 95.8%.

The frighteningly efficient British economy, worth 334 trillion euro-pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 113,668 euro-pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Union of British and Irish Republics after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, and British husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Union of British and Irish Republics's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Union of British and Irish Republics is ranked 30,081^st in the world and 1,093^rd in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 52.44 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.