The Republic of The Full Moon is a massive, genial nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.313 billion Full Moonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Empty Moon Base. The average income tax rate is 80.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Full Moonian economy, worth 158 trillion Loves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 120,889 Loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Full Moonian Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, the Empty Moon Base Film Festival recently voted 'Full Moonian Getting Hit By Football' as best film, if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... Full Moonian satellites can detect it, and social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Full Moon's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Full Moon is ranked 10,495^th in the world and 190^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 398.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.