The Social Democratic Republic of Quantum Bedalgueze is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, zero percent divorce rate, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 591 million Bedalguezes 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of East Khyine. The average income tax rate is 35.2%.

The all-consuming Bedalguezen economy, worth 59.3 trillion Tarnasola Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,285 Tarnasola Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

The government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, and urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quantum Bedalgueze's national animal is the Quantum Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quantum Bedalgueze is ranked 26,195^th in the world and 339^th in the Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 64,985.23 Standard Monetary Units.