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“Always do everything you ask of those you command.”

The Mystical and Magical Realms of The Beatus is a colossal, economically powerful nation, ruled by Grand Console Bradley with an iron fist, and notable for its suspicion of poets. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.278 billion are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded individuals juggles the competing demands of Defence, Religion & Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City of the Blessed. Income tax is unheard of. A powerhouse of a private sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology industries.

Citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors, movies and computer games are strictly censored for violence, only a minority of the population can actually vote at elections, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is a serious problem. The Beatus's national animal is the Penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, its national religion is the Path of the Blessed, and its currency is the Nokka.

The Beatus is ranked 12th in the region and 10,069th in the world for Most Pro-Market Nations.