The Socialist Republic of Hoshikuni is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Kazuo Shii with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.56 billion Hoshikuns 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, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sakai. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Hoshikunese economy, worth 165 trillion Hoshikunese Yirens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 105,774 Hoshikunese Yirens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing, confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle", and roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hoshikuni's national animal is the Hoshikunese Orca, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Shinbutsu.

Hoshikuni is ranked 12,578^th in the world and 170^th in The Leftist Assembly for Nicest Citizens, with 29.16 average smiles per day.