The Democratic Republic of Betan Isla is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 160 million Betan Islans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 25.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Betan Islan economy, worth 7.86 trillion pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,146 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage, and airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Betan Isla's national animal is the horse.

Betan Isla is ranked 113,752^nd in the world and 2,463^rd in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 64.42 law-abiding acts per hour.