The People's Republic of The Crooked Beat is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Star Child with a fair hand, and notable for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 41.158 billion Crooked Beatians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Social Policy, and Environment are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Crooked Beatian economy, worth an astonishing 11,886 trillion Pyramids a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 288,806 Pyramids, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Crooked Beatian Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, Crooked Beatian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and Star Child's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week. Crime is totally unknown. The Crooked Beat's national animal is the Unfunky UFO, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Crooked Beat is ranked 319^th in the world and 3^rd in A Modern World for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 52,668.64 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.