The Federation of MilkyWay is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Doctor Pope with an iron fist, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, ban on automobiles, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 9.675 billion MilkyWayians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Education, with Defense, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Yel. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient MilkyWayian economy, worth a remarkable 1,453 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 150,224 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, there's a bright dawn ahead for MilkyWay, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MilkyWay's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

MilkyWay is ranked 116,528^th in the world and 4,355^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,224.74 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.