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“Sway in the moonlight, dance in the dark”

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The Republic of Starlight Phobos is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.253 billion Starlight Phobosians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starlight Phobosian economy, worth 271 trillion lotuses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 120,365 lotuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists are not permitted to ask questions, getting an autograph has become harder than ever, the government will gladly pay you next Tuesday for a hamburger today, and pregnancy tests are under fire from the government for being marketed only to women. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Phobos's national animal is the moonlark, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Starlight Phobos is ranked 49,301^st in the world and 680^th in eta for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,769.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.