The Archaic Memories of Starlight Orion is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, unlimited-speed roads, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.639 billion Starlight Orionians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Orionian economy, worth 466 trillion rubles 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. 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 128,162 rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 446,565 per year while the poor average 26,780, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Parole hearings come with a complimentary ten-year extension, handling people's data is proving an immersive experience, it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, and aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Orion's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Starlight Orion is ranked 34,117^th in the world and 114^th in eta for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 233.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.