The Joint Defense Command of Outer Solaria is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by CASTELLAN with a fair hand, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.21 billion Outer Solarians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Borealis. The average income tax rate is 86.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Outer Solarian economy, worth 588 trillion Auroras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,815 Auroras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, exterminator companies deploy nerve gas in turf wars, and the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Solaria's national animal is the Microbe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Outer Solaria is ranked 257,684^th in the world and 19^th in Enomenos for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.38 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.