The Kingdom of Beiranoah is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Fernando Duarte with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, triple-decker prams, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.243 billion Beiranoahians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vissaium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.0%.

The Beiranoahian economy, worth 319 trillion Silvers a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,331 Silvers, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", and the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beiranoah's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Beiranoah is ranked 97,695^th in the world and 58^th in Catholic for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 86.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.