The Confederacy of New Terrasol is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its vat-grown people, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.262 billion Terrans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Terra. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth 969 trillion Credits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,380 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, and banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Terrasol's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

New Terrasol is ranked 10,521^st in the world and 197^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 397.96 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.