The Human Space Colony of A Lunar Base is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 1.46 billion Lunar Baseans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lunar Base 0. The average income tax rate is 14.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Lunar Basean economy, worth 52.0 trillion lunar mers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,618 lunar mers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians, home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks, and pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. A Lunar Base's national animal is the lunar bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

A Lunar Base is ranked 310,471^st in the world and 486^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 48.06 on the Human Development Index.