The Principality of Bellestar is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 2.616 billion Bellestarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Bellestarian economy, worth 185 trillion Calistoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,832 Calistoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, Bellestarian husbands are dead good at fathering kids, military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods, and politicians take citizens for idiots. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bellestar's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bellestar is ranked 30,300^th in the world and 487^th in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 832.28 pounds of wildlife per square mile.