The Woodhouse Sanctum of Steyr-1 is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, ban on automobiles, and public floggings. The devout population of 23.119 billion Steyr-1ians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 47.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Steyr-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,285 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,603 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation, cars are banned, prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos, and gun ownership is compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Steyr-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Steyr-1 is ranked 116,446^th in the world and 1^st in Steyr for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.08 law-abiding acts per hour.