The Coalition of Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Councilor Teren with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 4.382 billion Quasi-Stellarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Corial City. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Quasi-Stellar economy, worth 773 trillion Quasi-Stellarian dollars a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 176,629 Quasi-Stellarian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A violent scene on television results in mass mobilization of the National Guard, the newest shade developed by Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations's dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange', Corial City's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, and city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations's national animal is the Delworm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quasi-Stellar Star Civilizations is ranked 8,834^th in the world and 3^rd in The Outer Rim for Lowest Crime Rates, with 103.39 law-abiding acts per hour.