The Wandering Probe of Voyager Number 1 is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Little Prince with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, vat-grown people, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 1.588 billion Starsailers enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heliosphere. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Voyager Number 1ian economy, worth 222 trillion Circuits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,889 Circuits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism, they who do not work shall not eat, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, and the new 'Who Wants To Be A Politician' election debate auditions are more popular than the debates themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Voyager Number 1's national animal is the Temperamental Rose, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Golden Records.

Voyager Number 1 is ranked 11,485^th in the world and 92^nd in Refugia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,459.32 pounds of wildlife per square mile.