The Colony of Ceres Outpost is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Giuseppe Piazzi with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.818 billion Ceres Outpostians 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 relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ceres Command Center. The average income tax rate is 13.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Ceres Outpostian economy, worth 184 trillion Palladium Bars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,589 Palladium Bars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Populations of two-headed Hortas have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, in a desperate bid for cheap airfare Ceres Outpostians can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ceres Outpost's national animal is the Horta and its national religion is Panspermia.

Ceres Outpost is ranked 123,151^st in the world and 1^st in Ceres for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 920.2 on the Gilded Widget Scale.