The Empire of Stellara is a tiny, socially progressive nation, notable for its vat-grown people, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 12 million Stellarans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 43.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The developing Stellaran economy, worth 381 billion Saturn Crowns a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,774 Saturn Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs, the love has gone in Stellara, a popular saying is "don't do the crime if you can't smash the lime(stone)", and paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stellara's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stellara is ranked 264,860^th in the world and 415^th in Starlight for Most Developed, scoring 51.4 on the Human Development Index.