The Borderlands of UC Hicago is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Shid Kommunistvar with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.402 billion Hicaraguans 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 large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hyde Park. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong UC Hicagoan economy, worth 714 trillion Enks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 96,540 Enks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diaper-wrapped shawarma is a fan-favorite, scientists pester asteroids with probes until they go away, apples shaped like baguettes have become a strange new food fad, and government election advice reads like a restaurant menu. Crime is totally unknown. UC Hicago's national animal is the Mind Rat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

UC Hicago is ranked 184,464^th in the world and 1^st in Naatu Naatu for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 254.73 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.