The Republic of Starlight Central is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.109 billion Starlight Centralians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orion. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Starlight Centralian economy, worth 57.0 trillion Kromers a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,421 Kromers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?", fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Central's national animal is the Moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Central is ranked 75,890^th in the world and 3^rd in New PeanLand for Highest Poor Incomes, with 39,813.22 Standard Monetary Units.