The Federation of Space Dog is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Laika with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, rampant corporate plagiarism, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.499 billion Space Dogians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Spirituality, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sputnik 2. The average income tax rate is 6.3%.

The Space Dogian economy, worth 226 trillion Laikas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Gambling, Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 64,775 Laikas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, the new Space Dog Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls, Laika's relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will, and houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Space Dog's national animal is the Space Dog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Space Dog is ranked 4,204^th in the world and 3^rd in Benigtopia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 10,628.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.