The Rogue Nation of U2 is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.329 billion U2ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dublin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.4%.

The frighteningly efficient U2ian economy, worth 832 trillion chords a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,980 chords, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

The government merely sends empty platitudes whenever natural disasters strike foreign nations, the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed, political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster, and public transit is widely considered to be perpetrating the patriarchy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. U2's national animal is the Achtung Baby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

U2 is ranked 291,730^th in the world and 14^th in Ireland for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 185.27 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.