The Ashen Remnants of Starlight Phoenix is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, prohibition of alcohol, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.707 billion Starlight Phoenixians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 74.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Phoenixian economy, worth 398 trillion rubles 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 107,628 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

School football matches are usually five-a-side, optometrists will see citizens in seconds but health inspectors won't be sighted for years, politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, and racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Phoenix's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Starlight Phoenix is ranked 308,555^th in the world and 4,975^th in eta for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.