The Dominion of First Territory is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 334 million First citizens love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Subterranean-001. The average income tax rate is 58.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant First economy, worth 7.65 trillion credits a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 22,912 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government pours millions of credits into rehabilitation programs annually, government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time, airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps, and 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. First Territory's national animal is the Eagle Automaton, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

First Territory is ranked 61,604^th in the world and 746^th in the Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 70 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.