The Key Strategic Location of DeepSpace Nine is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Benjamin Sisko with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, devout population of 2.117 billion Inhabitants enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Operations Center. The average income tax rate is 50.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Inhabitant economy, worth 65.6 trillion Federation Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 30,967 Federation Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, treason is relative, and small patches of desolate land across the world are part of Inhabitant sovereign territory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DeepSpace Nine's national animal is the Gunji Jackdaw, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

DeepSpace Nine is ranked 334,780^th in the world and 185^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Patriotic, with 0.44 flags saluted per person per day.