The Republic of Beastars Vol 22 is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 873 million Beastars Vol 22ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 39.7%.

The thriving Beastars Vol 22ian economy, worth 69.9 trillion monies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,077 monies, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor, pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, Haru and Legoshis with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beastars Vol 22's national animal is the Haru and Legoshi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beastars Vol 22 is ranked 122,191^st in the world and 15^th in brick wall for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 39.74 Effective Tax Rate.