The 🌙 🌞 Little Wonder 🌟 🪐 of Space Oddity is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 4.737 billion Space Oddities 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 medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 48.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Space Oddity economy, worth 92.3 trillion Protein Pills a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 19,474 Protein Pills, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Space Oddity's national animal is the Pluto, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Space Oddity is ranked 98,040^th in the world and 1^st in Chinese Nationalist Party for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 48.36 Effective Tax Rate.