The United States of Followup is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, unlimited-speed roads, and public floggings. The compassionate, humorless population of 36.604 billion Followupians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.4%.

The all-consuming Followupian economy, worth a remarkable 2,508 trillion quartzes a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 68,538 quartzes, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Followup City Times is sold out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Followup's national animal is the human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Followup is ranked 163,177^th in the world and 7^th in Jethnea for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 286.07 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.