The Confluent-Administered Zone of Stellar Colonies is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Director with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 9.428 billion Citizens hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large government prioritizes Education, although Defense, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philomelus. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Confluent economy, worth a remarkable 1,024 trillion Contrabands a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,679 Contrabands, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of Contrabands are spent to take high-quality photos of the Confederate Hopes And Dreams Nebula, dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines', the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stellar Colonies's national animal is the Confederate Hopes and Dreams, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stellar Colonies is ranked 38,234^th in the world and 936^th in The East Pacific for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 14,030.06 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.