The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 146 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The devout population of 7.729 billion Starlight Glimmer 146ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 50.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Starlight Glimmer 146ian economy, worth 450 trillion bits a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,277 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work, broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, Starlight Glimmer 146ian politicians are often described as having more style than substance, and lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 146's national animal is the pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Starlight Glimmer 146 is ranked 91,460^th in the world and 557^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 2,238.79 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.