The State of Bienheureux is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 34.541 billion Bienheureuxians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The thriving Bienheureuxian economy, worth a remarkable 1,338 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 38,743 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 112,203 per year while the poor average 10,601, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Surveillance cameras are banned, all tariffs have been abolished, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and Bienheureux has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a problem. Bienheureux's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bienheureux is ranked 169,185^th in the world and 173^rd in State for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 67.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.