The Federal Republic of Beta Regio is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 648 million Beta-regioans 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Theia Mons. The average income tax rate is 44.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Beta Regioan economy, worth 21.3 trillion Cytherian Rifts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Retail, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,899 Cytherian Rifts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a politician called Male Infant Johnson, the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots, re-education centers are being added to most prisons, and in musicals everybody's a little bit racist. Crime is totally unknown. Beta Regio's national animal is the Ferret, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beta Regio is ranked 114,949^th in the world and 266^th in Europe for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.