The Holy Pink Dominion of Starlaris is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by High Chancellor Katherine Curie with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 16.388 billion Starlings are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Polaris Prime. The average income tax rate is 85.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starling economy, worth a remarkable 1,855 trillion Raycals a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 113,229 Raycals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation, crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, and boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlaris's national animal is the Starwhal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlaris is ranked 16,644^th in the world and 2^nd in Auroran for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,825.99 on the Gilded Widget Scale.