The Staging Area of Starbase 133 is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Dalen Quaice with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 6.071 billion Personnel are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Operations Center. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Personnel economy, worth 231 trillion Federation Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,188 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape, interest in globalism never flags, rundown towns are frequently sold to billionaires for their pet projects, and the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starbase 133's national animal is the Warp Bubble, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Starfleet.

Starbase 133 is ranked 307,565^th in the world and 144^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -8.31 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.