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“Sway in the moonlight, dance in the dark”

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The Republic of Starlight Emerald is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.267 billion Starlight Emeraldians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Emeraldian economy, worth 205 trillion lotuses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,544 lotuses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 261,097 per year while the poor average 24,926, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes, citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, and exterminators swarm Starlight Emeraldian homes. 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 195,867^th in the world and 1,714^th in eta for Largest Populations, with 2.27 billion capita.