The Empire of Belluve is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 530 million Belluveans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Belluvean economy, worth 50.3 trillion Leaxes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Tourism. Average income is 94,977 Leaxes, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 379,183 per year while the poor average 15,998, a ratio of 23.7 to 1.

Many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, children's toy tractors have been seized as state property, and souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Belluve's national animal is the White Badger.

Belluve is ranked 72,371^st in the world and 4,026^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,574.81 on the Gilded Widget Scale.