The Military Republic of Benese is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Agent Winbuntu with an iron fist, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.664 billion Beneseans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Environment are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Benese city. The average income tax rate is 85.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Benesean economy, worth a remarkable 1,044 trillion kronor 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. 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 156,664 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, and public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benese's national animal is the dolphin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Judaism and Islam.

Benese is ranked 7,705^th in the world and 192^nd in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 128 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.