The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 42 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 7.84 billion Starlight Glimmer 42ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 25.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Starlight Glimmer 42ian economy, worth 477 trillion bits 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. 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 60,934 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Autocrats are persona non grata, small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people", and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 42's national animal is the pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Glimmer 42 is ranked 5,720^th in the world and 55^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.88 law-abiding acts per hour.