The Republic of Starlight Charon is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.815 billion Starlight Charonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 41.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Starlight Charonian economy, worth 193 trillion lotuses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 106,694 lotuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, and pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Charon's national animal is the moonlark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Starlight Charon is ranked 41,608^th in the world and 2^nd in Anarchy Land lalalalallalala for Most Corrupt Governments, with 59.94 kickbacks per hour.