The Principality of Invent is a titanic, socially progressive nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, keen interest in outer space, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 16.568 billion Inventors hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Convergence Point. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Inventive economy, worth a remarkable 2,131 trillion discoveries a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 128,663 discoveries, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

People faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", and the nation is in perpetual campaign mode. Crime is totally unknown. Invent's national animal is the lab rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is scientism.

Invent is ranked 24,777^th in the world and 6^th in Union of Allied Planets for Largest Populations, with 16.6 billion capita.