The Ashen Remnants of Starlight Phoenix is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 3.811 billion Starlight Phoenixians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 76.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Phoenixian economy, worth 418 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 109,664 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

In life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, SP-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land, and the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Phoenix's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Phoenix is ranked 273,579^th in the world and 9^th in Sovereign Dominion for Least Corrupt Governments, with 76.53 percentage of bribes refused.