The Parallel Sunsets of Starlight Virgo is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, parental licensing program, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.585 billion Starlight Virgoans 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Virgoan economy, worth 425 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,710 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 421,683 per year while the poor average 24,083, a ratio of 17.5 to 1.

Tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense, romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, and Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Virgo's national animal is the kangaroo, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Starlight Virgo is ranked 157,584^th in the world and 2,498^th in eta for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 367.7 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.