The Commonwealth of Benstatios is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Council of Giger with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.36 billion Benstatians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Benlantis. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Benstatianese economy, worth 349 trillion bencoins 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 148,105 bencoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reddish-brown is the new black, taxpayer money is hard at work exorcizing laundry, a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, and only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise The Council of Giger on Benstatios's coulrophobia epidemic. Crime is totally unknown. Benstatios's national animal is the furry, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Benstatios is ranked 327,961^st in the world and 75^th in The Amaranthine Isles for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -10.12 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.