The State of Bentridge is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 17.214 billion Bentridgeans 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 large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 53.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Bentridgean economy, worth 405 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 23,579 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations, major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process, and Bentridge has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bentridge's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bentridge is ranked 98,281^st in the world and 2^nd in Kentucky for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.07 law-abiding acts per hour.