The United Country of Starabia is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Fred Dabouski with a fair hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, soft-spoken computers, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.964 billion Starabians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Starlia. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starabian economy, worth 936 trillion Starabian bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 156,880 Starabian bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Demand for gourmet white truffles is on the rise, songwriters compete to see who can come up with the most blasphemous lyrics, therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Starlia to enjoy their national art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starabia's national animal is the Bottlenose dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Starabia is ranked 157,746^th in the world and 318^th in Saint Osmund for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,871.31 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.