The Empire of Benalia Prime is a mid-sized, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 73 million Rhoxes enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Benalian economy, worth 758 billion Groats 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 10,387 Groats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, nudity is frowned upon, and cars are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benalia Prime's national animal is the Rhinoceros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Benalia Prime is ranked 249,358^th in the world and 933^rd in Concord for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 906.44 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.