The Republic of Fast Default is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.619 billion Defaulters 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 60.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Default economy, worth 68.4 trillion Defaults a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Soda Sales, and Book Publishing. Average income is 42,218 Defaults, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices, lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fast Default's national animal is the Default, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Fast Default is ranked 132,412^th in the world and 1^st in The Celestial TNO of Altjira for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,719.8 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.