The Queen's State of Bope is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 21.4 billion Bopeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.6%.

The powerhouse Bopean economy, worth a remarkable 1,171 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 54,733 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 216,665 per year while the poor average 9,349, a ratio of 23.2 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, the government is avowedly atheist, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime is moderate. Bope's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bope is ranked 151,990^th in the world and 7^th in 404 Not Found for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 400.97 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.