The Republic of Starlight Emerald is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, unlimited-speed roads, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.467 billion Starlight Emeraldians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Emeraldian economy, worth 225 trillion lotuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,087 lotuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 266,489 per year while the poor average 24,571, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter, and drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Emerald's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Emerald is ranked 79,402^nd in the world and 2^nd in Hot Land for Nicest Citizens, with 15.51 average smiles per day.