The Fenced Compound of Giant Moon Laser is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the board of directors with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 30.717 billion Giant Moon Laserians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The minute, corrupt, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Battery Park. The average income tax rate is 1.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Giant Moon Laserian economy, worth a remarkable 5,872 trillion giant moon credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 191,164 giant moon credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, bike rage is all the rage, and vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Giant Moon Laser's national animal is the giant moon bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Zugovocianism.

Giant Moon Laser is ranked 255^th in the world and 2^nd in The Moon for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 17,263.08 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.