The Republic of Terra Pla is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, soft-spoken computers, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.671 billion Terra Plans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Zeta Megastructure. The average income tax rate is 84.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Terra Plan economy, worth 225 trillion Planks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 134,962 Planks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Much of Terra Pla's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, and the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Terra Pla's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terra Pla is ranked 235,018^th in the world and 9,048^th in Lazarus for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.16 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.