The Republic of Starlight Jasmine is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its ritual sacrifices, free-roaming dinosaurs, and public floggings. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.245 billion Starlight Jasmineans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 46.0%.

The all-consuming Starlight Jasminean economy, worth 246 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, Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. 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 109,900 lotuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 352,913 per year while the poor average 25,941, a ratio of 13.6 to 1.

The military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings", disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown, burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine, and the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Jasmine's national animal is the moonlark, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Jasmine is ranked 78,678^th in the world and 620^th in eta for Most Developed, scoring 67.6 on the Human Development Index.