The Republic of Industry Beverage Sales is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, aversion to nipples, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 5.672 billion Alcoholics are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, although Defense is also considered important, while International Aid and Environment aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Drunk economy, worth 772 trillion beverages a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Soda Sales industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 136,261 beverages, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,072,457 per year while the poor average 4,293, a ratio of 249 to 1.

Family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off, women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners, chanting protestors ask "WHAT DO WE WANT?" and reply "MORE OF THE SAME", and official government guidance encourages binge behaviors. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Industry Beverage Sales's national animal is the bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Industry Beverage Sales is ranked 284,893^rd in the world and 38^th in Stats for Safest, scoring 3.36 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.