The Beans on Toast of Beans on Toast 20 is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.87 billion Beans on Toast 20ians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Beans on Toast 20ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,046 trillion Cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 152,378 Cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, military spending is on the increase, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beans on Toast 20's national animal is the Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Beans on Toast 20 is ranked 21,438^th in the world and 96^th in Memeland United for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.55 law-abiding acts per hour.