The Democratic States of Natural Sciences is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.304 billion Natural Sciencesians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Natural Sciences City. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Natural Sciencesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,535 trillion terras a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,163 terras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, politicians have tenure, the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property, and there's no representation without taxation. Crime is totally unknown. Natural Sciences's national animal is the orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Natural Sciences is ranked 309,205^th in the world and 11,769^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -19.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.