It's pretty close to my world except for those two things, too. We don't have either of those companies either, though, so far as I know. We aren't colonizing any other planets, either. We've just got plenty of other flavors of weird, enough that maybe we should be colonizing other planets, but I don't think anyone's invented the technology for it.
Arcturians, is that an alien species or humans living on another planet? What is it that you do that has you traveling around so much?