The Matriarchy of Bentese is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 1.764 billion Benteseans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bentesean economy, worth 204 trillion Créditoes a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 115,593 Créditoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner, the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure, the government funds large training centres to turn Golfinhoes into functioning members of society, and the state funds the recreational drug habits of every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bentese's national animal is the Golfinho, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bentese is ranked 10,127^th in the world and 3^rd in The Northern Atlantic for Most Developed, scoring 90.68 on the Human Development Index.