The Community of Highspeed Etoile is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its smutty television, rampant corporate plagiarism, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.16 billion Highspeed Etoileans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, although Administration, Welfare, and Education are also considered important, while Spirituality and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuji SuperSpeedway. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Highspeed Etoilean economy, worth 118 trillion yen a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 102,344 yen, with the richest citizens earning 6.2 times as much as the poorest.

Dissidents are commonly labelled as baby-killers, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Highspeed Etoile's national animal is the car, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Highspeed Etoile is ranked 56,348^th in the world and 173^rd in Ambition for Highest Average Incomes, with 102,344.54 Standard Monetary Units.