The Democratic States of Primus is a mammoth, orderly nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.95 billion Primusians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San francisco. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Primusian economy, worth 696 trillion cashes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,626 cashes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers, and divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Primus's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Primus is ranked 167,362^nd in the world and 5^th in California for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 67.92 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.