The Space Colony of Kiosk1 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by His Eminence with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 39.923 billion Kioskas 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Space. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kiosk1ian economy, worth an astonishing 19,228 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 481,629 Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tax assessment offices double as polling stations, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, His Eminence lights cigars with a hundred-Dollar bill, and nose plugs are the latest Kiosk1ian fashion accessory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kiosk1's national animal is the Water Buffalo, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

Kiosk1 is ranked 1,403^rd in the world and 23^rd in the Rejected Realms for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 11,550.66 on the Hickory Productivity Index.