The Queen's State of Benelope is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 26.94 billion Benelopeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Law & Order, with Industry, Education, and Defense also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.1%.

The very strong Benelopean economy, worth a remarkable 1,287 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 47,774 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 324,805 per year while the poor average 2,566, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Surveillance cameras are banned, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars. Crime is a major problem. Benelope's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Benelope is ranked 286,143^rd in the world and 6^th in Warsaw for Lowest Crime Rates, with 37.64 law-abiding acts per hour.