The Most Serene Republic of Starlit Merethin is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its frequent executions, disturbing lack of elderly people, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 2.759 billion Starlit Merethinians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlit Merethinian economy, worth 223 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,952 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.4 times as much as the poorest.

Weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, and the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlit Merethin's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlit Merethin is ranked 170,034^th in the world and 21^st in Mirror World 99 for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,582.81 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.