The New Warp Core of Starbase 84 is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Base Commander with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 7.594 billion Technicians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

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 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Technician economy, worth 450 trillion Federation Credits a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,261 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Annual tax returns take at least two years to complete, alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance, the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass", and pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starbase 84's national animal is the Redshirt, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Starfleet.

Starbase 84 is ranked 260,396^th in the world and 108^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -4 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.