The Republic of ARC Trooper 17 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed population of 1.425 billion ARC Trooper 17ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 36.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The ARC Trooper 17ian economy, worth 58.9 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,324 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police, prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer, and people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ARC Trooper 17's national animal is the Droid.

ARC Trooper 17 is ranked 270,544^th in the world and 4,392^nd in eta for Largest Black Market, with 98.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.