The Queendom of Starlight Glimmer 97 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ban on automobiles, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed population of 7.744 billion Starlight Glimmer 97ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.7%.

The Starlight Glimmer 97ian economy, worth 437 trillion bits 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, 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 56,522 bits, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, elected officials who disagree with Leader have a lot of accidents, the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, and barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the Starlight Glimmer 97 City Natural History Museum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Starlight Glimmer 97's national animal is the pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Starlight Glimmer 97 is ranked 95,679^th in the world and 643^rd in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.41 law-abiding acts per hour.