The Hive of Bees 3 is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.241 billion bees are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the hive. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient bee economy, worth 826 trillion pollens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 157,577 pollens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

National parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, the national anthem is a rather effective sleeping aid, and listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bees 3's national animal is the bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Bees 3 is ranked 23,132^nd in the world and 22^nd in No Farm No Fowl for Highest Average Incomes, with 157,577.23 Standard Monetary Units.