The 🌈 People's Rainbow Paradise of Alternate Beggystan is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 5.254 billion Alternate Beggystanians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The strong Alternate Beggystanian economy, worth 257 trillion 𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐬̧s a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is 48,959 𝐤𝐮𝐫𝐮𝐬̧s, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 315,545 per year while the poor average 3,069, a ratio of 102 to 1.

Military spending recently hit a new high, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Alternate Beggystan's national animal is the 𝓡𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵 𝓘𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓣𝓲𝓰𝓮𝓻, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Alternate Beggystan is ranked 283,834^th in the world and 2^nd in National Security Guard for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring -6.32 on the Gilded Widget Scale.