The Haderanian Polity of Star City is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 46.496 billion Sideroi are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Star City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but sluggish Sidereal economy, worth a remarkable 5,334 trillion Very-Fungible Tokens a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 114,735 Very-Fungible Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, and weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Star City's national animal is the Utahraptor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Star City is ranked 33,627^th in the world and 3^rd in The Proletariat Coalition for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 203.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.