Spotlight on:

“Fortitudo per Amorem”

Overview • Policies • People • Government • Economy • Rank • Trend • Cards

The Republic of Bellatrix is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Legate Druella Lestrange with a fair hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 5.282 billion Bellatrixians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amazonia. The average income tax rate is 62.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Bellatrixian economy, worth 177 trillion denaris 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 33,613 denaris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Legate Druella Lestrange has just been declared ruler of Bellatrix in an international press conference, Bellatrix has designated Amazonia as its capital city, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, and there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bellatrix's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Tellurism.

Bellatrix is ranked 267,346^th in the world and 2^nd in Tanzania for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -7.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.