The Federation of The United Earth Planet is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kenneth Wescott III with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, keen interest in outer space, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate population of 10.304 billion Earthlings enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francisco. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth a remarkable 1,542 trillion Federation 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 149,684 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The official Terran Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The United Earth Planet's national animal is the Humpback Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Starfleet.

The United Earth Planet is ranked 4,983^rd in the world and 1^st in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Lowest Crime Rates, with 116.59 law-abiding acts per hour.