The Republic of House Starkiller is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 2.131 billion House Starkillerians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 41.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant House Starkillerian economy, worth 21.0 trillion rubledollars 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 9,837 rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. House Starkiller's national animal is the hawk.

House Starkiller is ranked 233,783^rd in the world and 2^nd in Starkiller for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 175.03 on the Gilded Widget Scale.