The Free Land of Modified YT-1300 Stock Light Freight is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 7.224 billion Modified YT-1300 Stock Light Freightians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.9%.

The very strong Modified YT-1300 Stock Light Freightian economy, worth 386 trillion Spacecredits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 53,557 Spacecredits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 222,200 per year while the poor average 8,459, a ratio of 26.3 to 1.

Clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and all-natural foods are becoming a major fad. Crime is moderate. Modified YT-1300 Stock Light Freight's national animal is the Astrocetus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Modified YT-1300 Stock Light Freight is ranked 227,111^th in the world and 12^th in MandalMotors Spaceshipyard for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.34 law-abiding acts per hour.