The Community of Stelalia is a huge, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 472 million Stelalians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Moonflower. The average income tax rate is 79.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Stelalian economy, worth 33.3 trillion beans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Soda Sales. Average income is 70,510 beans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, Stelalia has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, and children are raised bilingual from an early age. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stelalia's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Stelalia is ranked 330,783^rd in the world and 1,439^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 0.55 flags saluted per person per day.