The Ashen Remnants of Starlight Phoenix is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.69 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Phoenixian economy, worth 399 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 108,348 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, the big red machine has ground to a halt, disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown, and the dartboard at the Starlight Phoenixian Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of Leader's face. 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 294,115^th in the world and 4,489^th in eta for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -7.54 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.