The Colony of Red Dome is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 23.323 billion Red Domeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Red Domean economy, worth a remarkable 4,414 trillion Gold Mars Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 189,278 Gold Mars Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Populations of two-headed Chickens have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, sharing vacation pictures requires written consent from the entire beach resort, janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for, and environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Red Dome's national animal is the Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Red Dome is ranked 1,808^th in the world and 80^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 149.05 law-abiding acts per hour.