The Republic of The Full Moon is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its public floggings, compulsory vegetarianism, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 1.269 billion Full Moonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Empty Moon Base. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Full Moonian economy, worth 154 trillion Loves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 121,610 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers, they who do not work shall not eat, the digital money revolution has cashed out, and fat-shaming is now public policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Full Moon's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Full Moon is ranked 50,254^th in the world and 520^th in Europe for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,900.08 on the Gilded Widget Scale.