The Republic of Starlight Lavender is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, enslaved workforce, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.313 billion Starlight Lavenderians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 60.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Lavenderian economy, worth 234 trillion lotuses 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 Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. 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 an impressive 101,285 lotuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 337,114 per year while the poor average 22,675, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Starlight Lavenderian roads, tabloids coo over Leader's expected child, among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult, and TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Lavender's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Lavender is ranked 61,447^th in the world and 642^nd in eta for Nicest Citizens, with 16.66 average smiles per day.