The Protectorate of Malicious Bee is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 5.735 billion Malicious Beeans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 57.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Malicious Beean economy, worth 47.7 trillion Honeys a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Automobile Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 8,320 Honeys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, surveillance cameras are banned, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Malicious Bee's national animal is the Bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Malicious Bee is ranked 251,708^th in the world and 1,851^st in the Rejected Realms for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.