The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 175 is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed population of 6.773 billion Starlight Glimmer 175ians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.3%.

The Starlight Glimmer 175ian economy, worth 353 trillion bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Gambling, Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 52,124 bits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 174,939 per year while the poor average 11,525, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime is moderate. Starlight Glimmer 175's national animal is the pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Glimmer 175 is ranked 243,310^th in the world and 10,226^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 53.87 law-abiding acts per hour.