The Commonwealth of Beaufort is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Clark Seeder with an even hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.762 billion Beaufortians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Waddon. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Beaufortian economy, worth a remarkable 1,158 trillion Beaufortian Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 132,213 Beaufortian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, pop stars who make it big overseas are hailed as economic heroes, and scientists who publish a non-reproducible result are tarred and feathered. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beaufort's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Beaufort is ranked 91,258^th in the world and 10^th in Teremara for Highest Drug Use, scoring 194.03 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.