The Nocturnal Side of Celestial 45 is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Lord with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 11.332 billion Celestials enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nightvale. The average income tax rate is 38.1%.

The large but inefficient Celestial economy, worth 514 trillion planet invasions 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 black market in Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Soda Sales. 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 45,406 planet invasions, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied extra-terrestrial, the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption, and foreign lack of enthusiasm for Celestial nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli. Crime is almost non-existent. Celestial 45's national animal is the extra-terrestrial, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is up to your imagination.

Celestial 45 is ranked 60,069^th in the world and 1^st in The Night Sky for Most Beautiful Environments, with 622.36 pounds of wildlife per square mile.