The Ruthless Winds of Starlight Antares is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.608 billion Starlight Antaresians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Antaresian economy, worth 418 trillion rupees a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,995 rupees, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Starlight Antaresian justice, riot police are stationed around paintings of violent protestors, and the government snoops on private internet connections. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Antares's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Starlight Antares is ranked 34,898^th in the world and 2^nd in Puppetstorm for Highest Poor Incomes, with 69,250.85 Standard Monetary Units.