The Federation of Starship Sydney is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by 1st Captain Squiloo with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 6.501 billion Starship Sydneyians 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 large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradise City. The average income tax rate is 44.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Starship Sydneyian economy, worth 358 trillion baht a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 55,161 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The giant 80-storey carving of 1st Captain Squiloo in Mount Rushless can be seen from space, truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned, the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares, and warnings about emergencies are the leading cause of emergency-related injuries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starship Sydney's national animal is the crocodile and its national religion is Nil.

Starship Sydney is ranked 94,267^th in the world and 117^th in The Regected Realns for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.59 law-abiding acts per hour.