The Great Solar system of Embassys of Pluto is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 849 million PLutonianians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hades City. The average income tax rate is 28.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Plutonist economy, worth 42.1 trillion Sputnix dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 49,631 Sputnix dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates, caroling is considered a public disturbance, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', and the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Embassys of Pluto's national animal is the Tiger shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Embassys of Pluto is ranked 58,148^th in the world and 1,549^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 1.92 trillion Standard Monetary Units.