The Free communities of Star Konopia is a mammoth, genial nation, remarkable for its smutty television, prohibition of alcohol, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.194 billion Star Konopians 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ad Astra City. The average income tax rate is 93.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Star Konopian economy, worth 707 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 114,261 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, there's never enough space in space, and space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down. Crime is totally unknown. Star Konopia's national animal is the Turkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Star Konopia is ranked 261,658^th in the world and 111^th in Refugia for Largest Black Market, with 127 billion Standard Monetary Units.