The Crowned Republic of Betmet is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.185 billion Betmetians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port des Roses. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Betmetian economy, worth a remarkable 1,318 trillion Ridgers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,471 Ridgers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, unshaven men are viewed with suspicion in courts of law, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, and the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Betmet's national animal is the Royal Bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Betmet is ranked 34,056^th in the world and 9^th in Ridgefield for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.47 law-abiding acts per hour.