The Protectorate of Urkhuz is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.577 billion Urkhuz love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ereng. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Urkhuz economy, worth 61.8 trillion aarmuzzes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. Average income is 39,169 aarmuzzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, bike rage is all the rage, and a government program is underway to revitalize Urkhuz's beaches. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urkhuz's national animal is the reindeer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Urkhuz is ranked 296,724^th in the world and 126^th in Albastru for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,249.46 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.