The Republic of Moon Base is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.332 billion Moon Baseans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 21.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Moon Basean economy, worth 57.7 trillion stardusts a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,315 stardusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies, the request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven, nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too, and museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Moon Base's national animal is the moonlark, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Moon Base is ranked 271,358^th in the world and 1^st in Moon Base for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring zero on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.