The Comarca of Beira is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 27.246 billion Beirans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.7%.

The thriving Beiran economy, worth a remarkable 1,368 trillion escudoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 50,227 escudoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 153,436 per year while the poor average 12,744, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

The mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, Beira successfully hosted the Portugal Olympics, referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population, and citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes. Crime is a problem. Beira's national animal is the whale, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Beira is ranked 97,523^rd in the world and 58^th in Portugal for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,500.27 on the Gilded Widget Scale.