The Republic of Starlight Hyperion is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its smutty television, disturbing lack of elderly people, and compulsory military service. The cynical, devout population of 2.444 billion Starlight Hyperionians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 67.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Hyperionian economy, worth 286 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. 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 116,900 lotuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges, families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country, childish pranks are no laughing matter, and five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Hyperion's national animal is the moonlark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Starlight Hyperion is ranked 281,883^rd in the world and 4^th in Dragonborn Confederate for Least Corrupt Governments, with 86.69 percentage of bribes refused.