The Continuing Adventures of The Starship Command is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Admiral Chelsea Leach with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, unlimited-speed roads, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 22.236 billion spacemen hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Supreme Headquarters Allied Forces Space. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Upian economy, worth a remarkable 2,591 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,527 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting, census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in The Starship Command to be bombproof. Crime is totally unknown. The Starship Command's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

The Starship Command is ranked 16,713^th in the world and 6^th in The Vast for Highest Food Quality, scoring 128.4 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.