The Interstellar Federation of Technogium is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by General-Secretary Numerion with an even hand, and remarkable for its digital currency, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 6.321 billion Technogians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

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 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Technogian economy, worth a remarkable 1,062 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 168,094 DELTA tritons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', straitjackets are a common religious garb, and exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Technogium's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Technogium is ranked 250,330^th in the world and 378^th in Starlight for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.91 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.