The Republic of Moon Base is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its frequent executions, free-roaming dinosaurs, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The compassionate population of 1.321 billion Moon Baseans 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, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 20.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Moon Basean economy, worth 56.8 trillion stardusts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,972 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion, most farmers are indentured to agrochemical conglomerates, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Moon Base's national animal is the moonlark, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Moon Base is ranked 48,579^th in the world and 1^st in Moon Base for Nicest Citizens, with 17.69 average smiles per day.