The State of Southern Bentley is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 17.698 billion Southern Bentleyians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Southern Bentleyian economy, worth 281 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Retail, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 15,914 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, Southern Bentley has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Southern Bentley in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Bentley's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Southern Bentley is ranked 283,651^st in the world and 8^th in Detroit for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 5,108.65 Standard Monetary Units.