The Empire of The Pact of Terra is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Augustus X with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, ubiquitous missile silos, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.108 billion Imperials are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial City. The average income tax rate is 25.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Pact of Terran economy, worth an astonishing 14,525 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 516,785 Imperial Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size, cub scouts are being asked to hand in their woggles as the state withdraws funding for scouting, the writing style of religious hymns often changes mid-stanza, and torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pact of Terra's national animal is the Tarentatek, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Pact of Terra is ranked 314,199^th in the world and 18,568^th in Chicken overlords for Safest, scoring 4 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.