The State of Olympus Mons Base is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 12.517 billion Olympus Mons Baseans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Law & Order, and Welfare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. The average income tax rate is 18.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Olympus Mons Basean economy, worth 696 trillion betales a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 55,643 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Olympus Mons Basean politics is literally a blood sport, organ donation rates have hit a new low, education and welfare spending are on the rise, and high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Olympus Mons Base's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Olympus Mons Base is ranked 87,239^th in the world and 5^th in Orient for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 45,127.25 Standard Monetary Units.