The Experimental Technocracy of The University Project is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by President Evil with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 38.662 billion Earthlings are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The tiny, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 7.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Terran economy, worth an astonishing 10,507 trillion oral favors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 271,783 oral favors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, auditors are gutting every governmental department, the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. The University Project's national animal is the scholarly dragonfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The University Project is ranked 293,022^nd in the world and 6,419^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 5.26 law-abiding acts per hour.