The Commonwealth of Armada Satellite Office is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 17.338 billion Marineses are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 64.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Armada Satellite Officean economy, worth 553 trillion satellite currencies 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, 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 31,930 satellite currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, the government is reining in public spending, the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed, and military spending is on the increase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Armada Satellite Office's national animal is the satellite animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Armada Satellite Office is ranked 116,338^th in the world and 1^st in Armada for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.09 law-abiding acts per hour.