The Empire of The Aligned Stars is a colossal, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.668 billion Aligned Starsians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Aligned Starsian economy, worth 211 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 57,564 credits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,493 per year while the poor average 16,324, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Crime is moderate. The Aligned Stars's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Aligned Stars is ranked 139,896^th in the world and 7^th in Junction in Limbo for Highest Average Incomes, with 57,564.94 Standard Monetary Units.