The Human-Grey Hybrid Prodigies of Benevolent 4 is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Klaatu with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The democratic, devout population of 16.474 billion Benevolents love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellipsis. The average income tax rate is 55.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Benevolent economy, worth 764 trillion Gorts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. Average income is 46,388 Gorts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, going on a diet invalidates your passport, the big red machine has ground to a halt, and prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benevolent 4's national animal is the human-grey hybrid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gaianism.

Benevolent 4 is ranked 76,229^th in the world and 19^th in BENEVOLENT EMPIRE for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 102.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.