The Armed Republic of Starship F is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, soft-spoken computers, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed population of 2.564 billion Starship Fians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 27.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Starship Fian economy, worth 89.5 trillion forks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 34,895 forks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites, frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starship F's national animal is the Militarized Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Starship F is ranked 171,842^nd in the world and 2,456^th in eta for Highest Poor Incomes, with 22,550.11 Standard Monetary Units.