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The United States of Bad Suns is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 4.046 billion Bad Sunsians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 48.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Bad Sunsian economy, worth 286 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,743 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time, formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, and a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bad Suns's national animal is the swan, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Bad Suns is ranked 267,809^th in the world and 38^th in Playlist for Most Cultured, scoring 60 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.