The Republic of United Former Venusian colonies is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Lady Dahlian Veneighia with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 3.547 billion Venusians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adrasthea Tesserae. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 70.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Venusian economy, worth 658 trillion Carbons a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 185,601 Carbons, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 733,274 per year while the poor average 31,805, a ratio of 23.1 to 1.

Companies balk at paying their workers, all weapon research has been banned, the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong, and the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. United Former Venusian colonies's national animal is the Loon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is catholicism.

United Former Venusian colonies is ranked 188,178^th in the world and 337^th in Chicken overlords for Lowest Crime Rates, with 57.73 law-abiding acts per hour.