The United and Free States of Unterlander is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by the Patriots with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.367 billion Unterlanderians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stadt von Neu Manhattan. The average income tax rate is 58.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Unterlanderian economy, worth 436 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,531 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Unterlander's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Protestantism.

Unterlander is ranked 36,847^th in the world and 742^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 5,150.31 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.