The Federation of Beman is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, cynical population of 180 million Bemanians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The powerhouse Bemanian economy, worth 17.1 trillion Beman Marks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 95,050 Beman Marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, students do more community service than homework, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the Beman City Elephants against long odds. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Beman's national animal is the Elephant .

Beman is ranked 11,191^st in the world and 88^th in Alliance of Supreme Powers for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 8,563.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.