The Incorporated States of Hetmanate Beltonia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 242 million Hetmanate Beltonians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 48.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Hetmanate Beltonian economy, worth 12.4 trillion Rubls a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 51,066 Rubls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service, and designer truncheons are the latest law enforcement fashion craze. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hetmanate Beltonia's national animal is the Raven.

Hetmanate Beltonia is ranked 38,512^th in the world and 2,223^rd in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 43.36 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.