The Commonwealth of Federation Terra Australis is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Prime Minister J C Watson with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.594 billion Australians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canberra. The average income tax rate is 76.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Australian economy, worth 711 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 197,989 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Federation Terra Australis's national animal is the Kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Federation Terra Australis is ranked 2,968^th in the world and 148^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 198 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.