The D'deridex-Class WarBird of LegMiner17 is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Somees with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.902 billion Romulans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Honclaix. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient LegMiner17ian economy, worth 495 trillion Tal Shiars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 170,742 Tal Shiars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, party leaders rely on horoscopes to create "ticket balance", the military struggles with recruitment, and student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned Cloaking Deviceball fields. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. LegMiner17's national animal is the Cloaking Device, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mnhei'sahe and Lyrrveoth.

LegMiner17 is ranked 26,456^th in the world and 521^st in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,135.47 on the Gilded Widget Scale.