The Federal Republic of Beta Regio is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 636 million Beta-regioans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theia Mons. The average income tax rate is 44.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Beta Regioan economy, worth 20.9 trillion Cytherian Rifts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Retail, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,899 Cytherian Rifts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a politician called Male Infant Hackett, the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots, re-education centers are being added to most prisons, and in musicals everybody's a little bit racist. Crime is totally unknown. Beta Regio's national animal is the Ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beta Regio is ranked 111,721^st in the world and 630^th in Europe for Highest Poor Incomes, with 28,398.62 Standard Monetary Units.