The Spacity Satellite of Love of SkyFac TransOrbital is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Bryce Carrington with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, feral children, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 31.096 billion SkyFac TransOrbitalians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ring One. The average income tax rate is 68.0%.

The frighteningly efficient SkyFac TransOrbitalian economy, worth a remarkable 3,330 trillion credits a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,099 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, billions of credits are being poured into a space program, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SkyFac TransOrbital's national animal is the vacc worm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

SkyFac TransOrbital is ranked 80,330^th in the world and 7^th in Union of Allied Planets for Lowest Crime Rates, with 68.49 law-abiding acts per hour.