The United Socialist States of United Antares Imperium is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed population of 346 million Antareans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Skorpius. The average income tax rate is 38.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Antarean economy, worth 17.4 trillion Antarean Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,182 Antarean Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", the sun rises an hour later on border communities, United Antares Imperium has designated Skorpius as its capital city, and every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Antares Imperium's national animal is the Xandar Eagle.

United Antares Imperium is ranked 212,605^th in the world and 7^th in Mitsuru Riku for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 221.55 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.