The Content Peoples of Umeria is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Helen D'Annain with a fair hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 17.779 billion Umerians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Agora. The average income tax rate is 99.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Umerian economy, worth a remarkable 3,831 trillion euros a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 215,484 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, Agora Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years, Umerian novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Helen D'Annain, and the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters. Crime is totally unknown. Umeria's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Umeria is ranked 1,560^th in the world and 30^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 153.32 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.