The Stellar Autocracy of The Republic of Western Sol is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Supreme leader Seth Bornto with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 5.462 billion solarians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osmarch. The average income tax rate is 53.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Solarian economy, worth a remarkable 1,574 trillion Catuns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 288,248 Catuns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Directors of low-budget sci-fi films are flocking to use Osmarch as a backdrop, 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink, a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons, and the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods. Crime is totally unknown. The Republic of Western Sol's national animal is the Solarian bombardier beetle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Solaris.

The Republic of Western Sol is ranked 290,579^th in the world and 62^nd in 001 Alpha Prime for Most Primitive, scoring -689.19 on the Scary Big Number Scale.