The Republic of Upper Ontario is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 280 million Upper Ontarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 61.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Upper Ontarioan economy, worth 13.8 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,282 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant, construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, and young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Upper Ontario's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Upper Ontario is ranked 53,648^th in the world and 43^rd in Edoca for Smartest Citizens, with 42.44 quips per hour.