The Republic of Starlight Emerald is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its disturbing lack of elderly people, enslaved workforce, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.393 billion Starlight Emeraldians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Emeraldian economy, worth 210 trillion lotuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,033 lotuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 252,044 per year while the poor average 24,478, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, and nobody likes bad boys any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Emerald's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Emerald is ranked 21,492^nd in the world and 127^th in eta for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 7,898.05 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.