The Paradise of Stardica is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Acacia Aquarius with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.377 billion Stardicans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orion. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Stardican economy, worth 713 trillion Suns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is an impressive 132,637 Suns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative, and third world countries are rich in "I Love Orion" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stardica's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The Horoscope.

Stardica is ranked 332,471^st in the world and 105^th in Conch Kingdom for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -16.78 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.