The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 188 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 6.718 billion Starlight Glimmer 188ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 39.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Starlight Glimmer 188ian economy, worth 266 trillion bits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,629 bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass, clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 188's national animal is the pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Glimmer 188 is ranked 91,176^th in the world and 4,791^st in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.02 law-abiding acts per hour.