The Empire of Belleroph is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 850 million Bellerophans 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 Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Bellerophian economy, worth 58.0 trillion Pegasus Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 68,180 Pegasus Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, a passport is literally priceless, increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, and unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belleroph's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Belleroph is ranked 15,997^th in the world and 284^th in the Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.84 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.