The Lookout of Outpost 1 is a titanic, orderly nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 13.094 billion Sentries enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Education, Welfare, and Defense are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The strong Outpost 1ian economy, worth 779 trillion bitcoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 59,508 bitcoins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 313,720 per year while the poor average 6,010, a ratio of 52.2 to 1.

A major religion has been named as Outpost 1's national religion, citizens must have a license to operate a computer, customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high, and a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat". Crime is a problem. Outpost 1's national animal is the kangaroo, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Outpost 1 is ranked 143,611^th in the world and 1^st in absurdities for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 76.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.