The Democratic Stellar Union of Starman of Stardust is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, anti-smoking policies, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 4.647 billion Starmen are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saucisse. The average income tax rate is 80.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Stardust economy, worth 54.7 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Pizza Delivery industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 11,773 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside, and Starman of Stardust has designated Saucisse as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starman of Stardust's national animal is the martian spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starman of Stardust is ranked 220,417^th in the world and 3^rd in Unification Ottomane de Shura for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 110.94 on the Hickory Productivity Index.