The Kingdom of Upalong is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, avant-garde cinema, and enforced nudity. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 42.191 billion Upalongians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Social Policy, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bluenose. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but underdeveloped Upalongian economy, worth a remarkable 2,550 trillion piece-of-eights a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,457 piece-of-eights, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Out-of-work actors say they can't complain, the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community, what goes down must come up, and they say that Upalongians made a dessert and called it peace. Crime is totally unknown. Upalong's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Upalong is ranked 1,570^th in the world and 8^th in The Maritimes for Largest Populations, with 42.2 billion capita.