The 1st Solar Furnace of Prometheus Projects is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Edward Busch with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 33.751 billion Prometheus Projectsians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perth. The average income tax rate is 89.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Prometheus Projectsian economy, worth a remarkable 6,226 trillion Rays a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 184,480 Rays, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, goldfish are really living up to their name, children talking about the food chain are routinely arrested, and newly synthesized elements' half-lives are a million times shorter than the time it takes to say their names. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prometheus Projects's national animal is the Sun dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is agnostics.

Prometheus Projects is ranked 20,297^th in the world and 39^th in Canada for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.