The Colony of Red Promise is a large, cultured nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 192 million Martians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 56.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Martian economy, worth 7.35 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 38,304 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's TV shows are having a gay old time, body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms, angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes, and same-sex marriages are increasingly common. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red Promise's national animal is the Alien, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Red Promise is ranked 155,133^rd in the world and 46^th in Steam for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,931.44 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.