The Borderlands of Belistien is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Yuri Serbinaski IV with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 25.314 billion Belistienians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belistien City. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Belistienian economy, worth a remarkable 3,389 trillion Gold Beliens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 133,913 Gold Beliens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nouveau riche farmers diligently take care of their golden calf herds, asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before, the nation's air missiles have killed thousands of Brasilistan military personnel, and the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belistien's national animal is the Dread Hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Belistien is ranked 187,146^th in the world and 378^th in A Taco Paradise for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 42.78 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.