The People's Republic of The Crooked Beat is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Star Child with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 33.032 billion Crooked Beatians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Social Policy, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Crooked Beatian economy, worth a remarkable 8,932 trillion Pyramids a year, is highly specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 270,434 Pyramids, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles', and artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings. Crime is totally unknown. The Crooked Beat's national animal is the Unfunky UFO, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Crooked Beat is ranked 152,730^th in the world and 10^th in A Modern World for Most Pro-Market, scoring 25.78 on the Rand Index.