The Conviction of Deeply Felt Beliefs is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Reverend Jube Leavitt with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 10.964 billion True Believers 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Absolute. The average income tax rate is 76.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Deeply Felt Beliefsian economy, worth 230 trillion felts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 21,067 felts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, and military barracks resemble five-star hotels. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deeply Felt Beliefs's national animal is the chinchilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Emotive Pseudo-Christianity.

Deeply Felt Beliefs is ranked 295,652^nd in the world and 13^th in T2R for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.53 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.