The Human Space Colony of A Lunar Base is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 1.302 billion Lunar Baseans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lunar Base 0. The average income tax rate is 14.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Lunar Basean economy, worth 46.4 trillion lunar mers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 35,618 lunar mers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians, home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks, and pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. A Lunar Base's national animal is the lunar bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

A Lunar Base is ranked 195,298^th in the world and 408^th in Starlight for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 57.88 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.