The Cosmic Chronicle of Inclement Space is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Hetman Dmytro Fournier with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 2.25 billion Inclement Spacers 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Belfast. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Inclement Space economy, worth 397 trillion liquid platinums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 176,759 liquid platinums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation leads The North Pacific in per capita stalking, group hugs break out during floor votes, the leading national news source is 'my cousin Billy-Bob on MyFace', and groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Inclement Space's national animal is the homo veneri, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Inclement Space is ranked 6,416^th in the world and 309^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 58.24 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.