The Disputed Territories of Bettongia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Scrappy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 46.077 billion Bettongs 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Spirituality and Welfare not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bettongia City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 62.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Bettongish economy, worth an astonishing 19,011 trillion Oats a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 412,597 Oats, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,164,673 per year while the poor average 117,005, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, claims adjusters are uselessly vague, and even secular Bettongs are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!". Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Bettongia's national animal is the Bettong, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bettongia is ranked 291,530^th in the world and 10,986^th in Osiris for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring -37.15 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.