The Free Land of Children of the Star is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.55 billion Starians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rockstar. The average income tax rate is 83.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Starian economy, worth 796 trillion starmarcs a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 143,522 starmarcs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Snap elections are called over every minor impasse, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, and a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation. Crime is totally unknown. Children of the Star's national animal is the starfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Children of the Star is ranked 11,226^th in the world and 173^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,599.32 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.