The Joint Defense Command of Outer Solaria is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by CASTELLAN with a fair hand, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.15 billion Outer Solarians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Borealis. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Outer Solarian economy, worth 567 trillion Auroras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 136,721 Auroras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The black market offers sweet deals, radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Outer Solaria's national animal is the Microbe, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Outer Solaria is ranked 12,298^th in the world and 2^nd in Enomenos for Most Cultured, scoring 105 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.