The Unreported Sightings of Benevolent 1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mark Time with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate, devout population of 18.314 billion Benevolents are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellipsis. The average income tax rate is 91.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Benevolent economy, worth a remarkable 1,620 trillion Gorts a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,472 Gorts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling", citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benevolent 1's national animal is the human-grey hybrid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gaianism.

Benevolent 1 is ranked 21,704^th in the world and 2^nd in BENEVOLENT EMPIRE for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.36 law-abiding acts per hour.