The First Union of Spectacor is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Ed Snyder with a fair hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 31.479 billion Spectacorians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Spectra. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Spectacorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,599 trillion Spectrums a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 50,807 Spectrums, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, the government spends millions of Spectrums every year prosecuting spammers, and Spectacor has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spectacor's national animal is the flyer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spectacor is ranked 30,367^th in the world and 2^nd in Wonderfalls Gift Emporium for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,334.32 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.