The Most Serene Republic of Starlit Merethin is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ban on automobiles, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 2.754 billion Starlit Merethinians 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, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlit Merethinian economy, worth 226 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,975 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings, eating kids as food has been enshrined in law, and military pistols are more secure than the national treasury. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlit Merethin's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlit Merethin is ranked 278,065^th in the world and 59^th in Mirror World 99 for Least Corrupt Governments, with 89.53 percentage of bribes refused.