The United Socialist States of Quarvian Stellar Union is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 586 million Unioners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ronoton. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Quarvian Stellar Unionian economy, worth 53.5 trillion Scripts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 91,317 Scripts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Art criticism in Quarvian Stellar Union is scathingly destructive, knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety, the new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins, and East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quarvian Stellar Union's national animal is the Owl, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Quarvian Stellar Union is ranked 148,503^rd in the world and 362^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Politically Free, scoring 53.52 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.