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The Dictatorship of Belrille is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.023 billion Belrilleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastion of Might. The average income tax rate is 59.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Belrillean economy, worth 76.0 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,550 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The government prefers to leave the past buried, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account, and Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belrille's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Belrille is ranked 164,901^st in the world and 2,810^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 584.45 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.