The Republic of Bituin is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 479 million Bituinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Manila. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Bituinian economy, worth 21.8 trillion Philippine pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 45,576 Philippine pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The Bituinian government is the world's largest NGO, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs, and the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned. 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.

Bituin is ranked 61,992^nd in the world and 1,163^rd in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 550.71 on the Clooney Contribution Index.