The United Planets of The Plutonian Empire is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Eugene Empire with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 42.119 billion Plutonians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The large, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pisces Centauri. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Plutonian economy, worth a remarkable 6,890 trillion Plutos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 163,586 Plutos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recent events have left citizens both shaken and stirred, taxpayers cringe whenever someone brings up the Former Antagonist Reparations Treaty, tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs, and orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents. Crime is totally unknown. The Plutonian Empire's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Plutonianism.

The Plutonian Empire is ranked 23,838^th in the world and 1^st in Terraformed Pluto for Lowest Crime Rates, with 86.76 law-abiding acts per hour.