The Deep Space Station of Deep Space 3 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Vice Admiral Marcus Holt with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, unlimited-speed roads, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 4.216 billion Residents 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ops. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Resident economy, worth 145 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 quite specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 34,429 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, government workers are more efficient and more unhappy than ever, Residents refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, and almost half of the child population live rough on the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deep Space 3's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Deep Space 3 is ranked 300,741^st in the world and 129^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -7.1 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.