The Imperialist Colony of Sector 1-10 is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Generalissimo John Vers with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 17.41 billion Sector 1-10ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hoppuk. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Sector 1-10ian economy, worth a remarkable 3,474 trillion Imperial Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 199,596 Imperial Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sector 1-10's national animal is the URRG, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Sector 1-10 is ranked 3,562^nd in the world and 198^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 125.26 law-abiding acts per hour.