The United Socialist States of Nugget Union is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairperson Nuggetov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.501 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 Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuggetist. The average income tax rate is 35.1%.

The all-consuming Nuggeter economy, worth 147 trillion nuggets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 98,498 nuggets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 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 39,490^th in the world and 850^th in The East Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 77.92 law-abiding acts per hour.