The People's Republic of Wave to earth is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 830 million Wave to earthians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 27.3%.

The powerhouse Wave to earthian economy, worth 74.1 trillion abgs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is 89,217 abgs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Warfare increasingly resembles a video game, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, the Federal Council of Wave to earth has been announced as the new Head of State, and there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Wave to earth's national animal is the keshi, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Wave to earth is ranked 174,873^rd in the world and 100^th in Federation of Martian Colonies for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 752.59 on the Societal Mobility Rating.