The Interstellar Federation of Technogium is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by the Synedrium with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 6.93 billion Technogians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Astrea. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Technogian economy, worth a remarkable 1,288 trillion DELTA tritons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 185,968 DELTA tritons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, military pistols are more secure than the national treasury, and the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Technogium's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Technogium is ranked 98,735^th in the world and 242^nd in Starlight for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 62.44 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.