The Stellar Socialist Republic of Crimson Terra is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Supreme Minister Edin Velkan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 4.972 billion Terrans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Prospero in the Himalayas on Terra. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Terran economy, worth 485 trillion Terran credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 97,729 Terran credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Royalist is the most offensive slur in the Terran language, statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families, a soldier's body is a temple, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crimson Terra's national animal is the peregrine falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Crimson Terra is ranked 249,465^th in the world and 186^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.38 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.