The Republic of Planaterria is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, national health service, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate population of 732 million Planaterrians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 29.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Planaterrian economy, worth 56.2 trillion Planaterrian Nummuses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,769 Planaterrian Nummuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, and the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Planaterria's national animal is the Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Planaterria is ranked 248,448^th in the world and 1,140^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -6.15 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.