The Federation of The United Earth Planet is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Kenneth Wescott with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, aversion to nipples, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.949 billion Earthlings are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Francisco. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth a remarkable 1,111 trillion Federation Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 139,790 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, escalators are avoided at all costs, young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts, and people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The United Earth Planet's national animal is the Humpback Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Starfleet.

The United Earth Planet is ranked 245,822^nd in the world and 138^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Conservative, scoring 32.25 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.