The Free Land of Beach Portrait is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, disturbing lack of elderly people, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 9.384 billion Beach Portraitians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 34.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Beach Portraitian economy, worth a remarkable 1,156 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,276 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested, political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster, the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience, and odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beach Portrait's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Beach Portrait is ranked 57,957^th in the world and 2^nd in Art by Sam Yang for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,746.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.