The Federal Monarchy of Bel Cairo is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Sultan Anwar Jabbar I with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.141 billion Cairoans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neos-Heliopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Bel Cairoan economy, worth a remarkable 2,609 trillion Kronor a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 285,453 Kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,155,051 per year while the poor average 47,023, a ratio of 24.6 to 1.

A firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders, and where your food came from is an unknowable mystery. Crime is relatively low. Bel Cairo's national animal is the Golden Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Rule of Thoth.

Bel Cairo is ranked 197,295^th in the world and 66^th in Capitalist Paradise for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.93 law-abiding acts per hour.