The Republic of Starlight Rose is a massive, genial nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.331 billion Starlight Roseans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Rosean economy, worth 276 trillion lotuses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 118,503 lotuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Starlight Rosean democracy, and citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Rose's national animal is the moonlark, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Starlight Rose is ranked 189,097^th in the world and 2,522^nd in eta for Largest Black Market, with 584 billion Standard Monetary Units.