The People's Republic of Becichierec is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 102 million Becichierecians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Becichierecian economy, worth 728 billion Leis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 7,141 Leis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, the government is spending billions of Leis on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons, and Leader has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Becichierec's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Becichierec is ranked 220,581^st in the world and 283^rd in The Kodiak Republic for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 241.82 on the Gilded Widget Scale.