The United Republic of Starenia is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nikola Jokić with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.378 billion Starenians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belgrade and Athens. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starenian economy, worth 312 trillion ₳ Starenian aspers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,212 ₳ Starenian aspers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Murderers facing life in prison listen to long sermons on positive thinking, exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, and teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starenia's national animal is the Aquila heliaca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Starenia is ranked 17,505^th in the world and 329^th in Europe for Most Cultured, scoring 92 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.