The Incorporated States of Tera stellarum is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.663 billion Tera stellarumians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Tera stellarumian economy, worth 261 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 157,418 Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 685,335 per year while the poor average 22,886, a ratio of 29.9 to 1.

Anyone with an emergency on a holy day is advised to pray harder, policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns, small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, and even God cannot save you in Tera stellarum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tera stellarum's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Tera stellarum is ranked 27,273^rd in the world and 32^nd in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 28,866.5 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.