The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 179 is a colossal, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 6.861 billion Starlight Glimmer 179ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Social Policy, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 31.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Starlight Glimmer 179ian economy, worth 373 trillion bits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,397 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse, urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens, being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill, and the Starlight Glimmer 179ian Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 179's national animal is the pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Starlight Glimmer 179 is ranked 246,986^th in the world and 9,150^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 7.85 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.