Music is just as much a constant in Uralica as Jesus Christ, loyalty, football (soccer), and the Uralic language family. It has gotten to the point where Uralican yearly census takers ask for the number of musical instruments a family owns, and if they own fewer than one per person, they can apply for a government grant to buy one!

The largest permanently-enclosed building by volume in Uralica is the Filharmonia in Syktyvkar (and the only buildings bigger than that are both football (soccer) grounds, Syktyvkar Stadion and Permyak Stadion), and this is inhabited by two of Uralica's seven symphony orchestras. In total there are:

- The Uralican Symphony Orchestra (Syktyvkar)

- The Syktyvkar Philharmonic Orchestra (Syktyvkar)

- The Permyak Symphony Orchestra (Perm')

- The Kirov Symphony Orchestra (Kirov)

- The Sibeliuksen Orkesteri (Kirov)

- The Berezniki-Solikamsk Philharmonic Orchestra (Solikamsk)

- The Ukhta Radio Symphony Orchestra (Ukhta)

If this wasn't enough evidence of the permeation of music through Uralican culture, one need only look at the school system. Music is mandatory from kindergarten all the way through to Grade 13. Naturally, this can take different forms. There is no real need of conservatories as the more advanced musical programs are already offered by the public education system. Individual musical training begins at the third-grade level, however some are already taking private lessons before the fact, usually from people who themselves are learning the most advanced musical techniques at Uralikan Yliopisto, Uralica's state university.

While classical scholars tend to look down on both folk music and mainstream music in other nations, such is not the case in Uralica. Although urban music has been panned as "oversimplistic" in its musicality for the most part by UY, there are classes offered in "Ol' School" R&B vocal techniques in the Special Topics classes. On the other hand, most of the rock spectrum ("pop-punkers who play the same chordal pattern all the time need not apply" according to Music department chair Timofey Rubenstein) is encouraged, and different forms of heavy metal often find themselves under the microscope by the classically-minded, because of the high level of musicianship required. Performance majors on guitar can take courses in rock and metal musicianship, with metal bands such as Metallica, Machine Head, Cannibal Corpse, Fear Factory, and even homegrown Christian death-metal/thrash product Pelastus, being required reading, as well as more mainstream rock bands/acts in various periods of rock music. One is likely to hear all about Rock 'n' Roll (Elvis Presley, BB King), British Invasion (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones), 70s rock (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Guess Who), 80s rock (both glam and non-glam, U2, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Guns 'n' Roses, and so forth), the emergence of grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins) and post-grunge (Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Foo Fighters, Deftones, Trapt, Disturbed) in UY's Music History program.

Electronic music is also strongly encouraged. The concepts behind electronic music are usually introduced in Grade 11, the year after physics, chemistry, biology, and geology all split apart into separate classes. This gives students the opportunity to master the physics of sound before starting electronic music production. Once one gets to the university level, it is possible to take a program in computer music jointly offered by Music and Computer Science.

As far as fame outside of Uralica, it is surprising. Ukhta-based Pelastus (Matti Pitkänen, Lauri Sinisalo, Tanne Kangur, Samppa Niskanen, Jarno Mäkelä) is the top-selling Christian band on Planet Bob with its brutal sound combined with meaningful lyrics.

Furthermore, the nation's ruler, Jarkko Salomäki has several projects at the moment - his solo ambient/symphonic electronica project DC76, group ambient project TundraSounds with Marko Lehtonen, industrial project Bane of the Machine with Johannes Gies and Lasse Salo, industrial metal band Digitoxicosis with Tatyana Malinskaya, Esa Myllyjärvi, Arkady Koskov, Aalto Kujanen, and Ville Kotamäki, and trance collaboration Sointula with fellow Sointula Finn Jeffrey Laukkanen.

The TranceAddicts Club in Kirov is one of the more popular dance clubs around, with a steady stream of trance, EBM, and ambient music flowing, with some of TOOL's most popular dance acts coming from there, most notably Mari psy-trance act Ruslan Tikhonov. Jyrki Koistinen, that master of symphonic electronica, cut his teeth here. Also claiming that as their home base is Jewish EBM act Enemy's Enemy.

Finally, the aforementioned Uralican Symphony Orchestra is one of the most requested orchestras in classical music radio on Planet Bob, whether it be to hear them perform some of the masters of old, or to hear the neo-classical and post-romantic stylistics of the nation's own composers, like Sirkka Numminen, the neo-classicist from Syktyvkar, or Ruslan Kamyshin, the post-romantic from Öskölömi.

So a word of advice to anyone entering Uralica. Bring money to rent an instrument.