The Concordium of Independent Planets is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chief Executive Mark Halpert with an even hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, rampant corporate plagiarism, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 33.982 billion Planetians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Francis. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Planetian economy, worth an astonishing 11,474 trillion credits a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 337,663 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in Independent Planets, and arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Independent Planets's national animal is the ox, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Independent Planets is ranked 936^th in the world and 5^th in Texas for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 35,786.69 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.