The Telegram interceptor of The Phoenix Militia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, sprawling nuclear power plants, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 15.544 billion Militants are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Social Policy is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Phoenix. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.9%.

The powerhouse Phoenix Militian economy, worth a remarkable 1,474 trillion shell casings a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 94,859 shell casings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 450,078 per year while the poor average 11,798, a ratio of 38.1 to 1.

The military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by an alien fox, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, and the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Phoenix Militia's national animal is the alien fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cult of Seville.

The Phoenix Militia is ranked 88,205^th in the world and 6^th in Outer Space for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,875.23 on the Gilded Widget Scale.