The State of Star Annex is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 23.971 billion Star Annexians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Star Annexian economy, worth 421 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 17,598 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Star Annex's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Star Annex is ranked 10,070^th in the world and 5^th in Brazzaville for Largest Populations, with 24.0 billion capita.