The Republic of Terra Pla is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.639 billion Terra Plans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Zeta Megastructure. The average income tax rate is 85.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Terra Plan economy, worth 219 trillion Planks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 134,064 Planks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Class clowns are frequently listed among the most dangerous criminals in the nation, funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, and the TPBI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Terra Pla's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terra Pla is ranked 285,261^st in the world and 10,986^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -444.01 on the Scary Big Number Scale.