The Literary Appreciatory of British Starsian Influence is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Prime Minister Thatcher with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 4.404 billion Starians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New London. The average income tax rate is 42.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Starsi Brit economy, worth 739 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 168,000 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

A ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect, kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, and Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned. Crime is totally unknown. British Starsian Influence's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

British Starsian Influence is ranked 118,699^th in the world and 27^th in Union of Christian Nations for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,595.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.