The Grand Union of Planets of The Acolyte Confederacy is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Leonida Yasukornus with an iron fist, and notable for its ban on automobiles, infamous sell-swords, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 4.733 billion Acolytes are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solarian Megacity. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient an Acolyte economy, worth 530 trillion Interplanetary Credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,167 Interplanetary Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation, the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results, and truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Acolyte Confederacy's national animal is the None, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The cult of Sol Invictus.

The Acolyte Confederacy is ranked 33,430^th in the world and 59^th in The League for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,305 on the Gilded Widget Scale.