The Syndicalist Unions of Utym is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 950 million Utymics 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 82.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Utymic economy, worth 97.9 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 103,024 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gift hampers filled with delicious beef jerky are sent to newly communist nations, the treehouse in Racoon Park is the tallest building in Utym, visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, and major internet servers have acquired citizenship. Crime is totally unknown. Utym's national animal is the racoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Utym is ranked 63,706^th in the world and 989^th in The Communist Bloc for Safest, scoring 97.97 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.