The Village of Belcarra is a massive, safe nation, ruled by James Miller with an even hand, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 2.135 billion Belcarrans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belcarra Rock. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.5%.

The Belcarran economy, worth 133 trillion rocks 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. 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 62,743 rocks, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions, some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes, pro-life activists often lecture pregnant women undergoing routine prenatal screening, and weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belcarra's national animal is the rock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is rock.

Belcarra is ranked 62,985^th in the world and 5^th in big for Most Patriotic, with 22.37 flags saluted per person per day.