The Queendom of Sternaea is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 9.29 billion Sternaeans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The tiny, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong Sternaean economy, worth 692 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 74,573 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, and nudity is frowned upon. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Sternaea's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sternaea is ranked 260,405^th in the world and 8^th in Republic of Ukraine for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -7.75 on the Clooney Contribution Index.