The Lost Weekend of UPC is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Phoebe with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and state-planned economy. The compassionate population of 8.952 billion Radiants 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, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urithiru. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Radiant economy, worth a remarkable 1,118 trillion Diamond Broams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. Average income is an impressive 124,992 Diamond Broams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, and starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. UPC's national animal is the Windspren, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of Honor.

UPC is ranked 5,850^th in the world and 78^th in Europeia for Safest, scoring 126.49 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.