The People's Republic of Stelarius is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Drake Clarindra with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.456 billion Stelarians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dorsal. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Stelarian economy, worth 201 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 138,374 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stelarius's national animal is the Bottlenose Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Stelarius is ranked 13,034^th in the world and 257^th in the Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 108 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.