The Colony of Duty Space is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, avant-garde cinema, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.509 billion Duty Spaceans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 54.1%.

The all-consuming Duty Spacean economy, worth 551 trillion credits a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,091 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police, and many marriages go virtually unconsummated. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Duty Space's national animal is the death stalker, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Duty Space is ranked 46,267^th in the world and 19^th in Geimugyoukai for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.33 law-abiding acts per hour.