The Dominion of Moving nation is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by John Sprint with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.986 billion Moving nationians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moving And There It Goes. The average income tax rate is 66.3%.

The all-consuming Moving nationian economy, worth 228 trillion moves a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,291 moves, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, gun ownership is compulsory, surgeons walk out of theatres more often than prima donna actors, and the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moving nation's national animal is the lemur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Moving.

Moving nation is ranked 57,321^st in the world and 4^th in New Deathland Storage for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 163.88 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.