The Beautiful Stars of Bituin is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 805 million Bituinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manila. The average income tax rate is 49.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Bituinian economy, worth 47.9 trillion Philippine pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,448 Philippine pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has ended partisanship by ending elections, Bituinian actors literally work from cradle to grave, only lightning has a chance of striking Leader twice, and politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bituin's national animal is the Carabao, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bituin is ranked 85,257^th in the world and 1,683^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,565.4 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.