The Shimmer of Starlight Cetus is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, zero percent divorce rate, and keen interest in outer space. The cynical population of 3.772 billion Starlight Cetusians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Cetusian economy, worth 475 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,859 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 417,521 per year while the poor average 28,316, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Livestock mutilations are on the rise, it turns out that trees grow on dollars, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, and business is banging at no-tell motels. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Cetus's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Cetus is ranked 17,179^th in the world and 1^st in PrueBen for Most Developed, scoring 87.84 on the Human Development Index.