The Insular Area of Starlight Archipelago is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The compassionate, devout population of 2.698 billion Starlight Archipelagoans 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Night City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Archipelagoan economy, worth 265 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,396 Imperial Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

Starlight Archipelago is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals, and street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Archipelago's national animal is the Yellow Labrador, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Starlight Archipelago is ranked 104,671^st in the world and 1^st in Starlight Isles for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,174.61 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.