The Republic of Terra Pla is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its smutty television, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.592 billion Terra Plans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Zeta Megastructure. The average income tax rate is 85.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Terra Plan economy, worth 209 trillion Planks 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 131,841 Planks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surveillance cameras are banned, everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen, Terra Plans visiting rural Southern Ant Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee, and Terra Pla's heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Terra Pla's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terra Pla is ranked 6,348^th in the world and 306^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 42.51 average smiles per day.