The Europeian Far Away Province of Terraustra is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Governor Max Power with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.695 billion Terraustrians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New South Rome. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Terraustran economy, worth 164 trillion faraway euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 96,913 faraway euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heavily subsidised Terraustran baskets litter the streets of Europeia, artificial intelligences seeking exciting work are overcome with ennui, tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless, and nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Terraustra's national animal is the Antartic Allosaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Freemasonry radical secularism.

Terraustra is ranked 13,702^nd in the world and 123^rd in Europeia for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 54.3 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.