The BEDEBAO STRIKES AGAIN of Sonoto is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Electric Dictator Bedebao with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.257 billion Abductees are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Administration also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of βetaship. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.6%.

The strong Bedetopian economy, worth a remarkable 1,955 trillion βedollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 91,979 βedollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Big game hunters travel to Sonoto to try their hand at shark-shooting, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources, games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting, and the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Sonoto's national animal is the Tentacled Lion of Venus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sonoto is ranked 143,436^th in the world and 1^st in The Iron Order for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 890.54 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.