The Colony of Project AEGIS is a huge, safe nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 512 million Project AEGISians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Project AEGISian economy, worth 24.2 trillion Caps a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,303 Caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Project AEGIS City, and roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Project AEGIS's national animal is the Guardian, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Project AEGIS is ranked 268,266^th in the world and 15^th in Fallout Genesis for Smartest Citizens, with 19.38 quips per hour.