The United States of Saint Belmar II is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 608 million Belmari's are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Narfashka and Gluttenburg. The average income tax rate is 18.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Belmari economy, worth 48.6 trillion Genzaloes 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 79,974 Genzaloes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace', fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, the constantly ringing phones in Leader's office have driven a few interns mad, and the government jails the parents of underage drinkers. Crime is moderate. Saint Belmar II's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

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