The Republic of Bes Zigara is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Johnny Depp with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, feral children, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.059 billion Bes Zigarans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boston. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bes Zigaran economy, worth a remarkable 5,496 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, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Soda Sales. 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 amazing 261,022 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has cemented its own architectural style, the purgative quality of Bes Zigaran cuisine is known across the globe, on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant, and the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bes Zigara's national animal is the unicorn, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Baseball.

Bes Zigara is ranked 5,559^th in the world and 2^nd in Boston for Highest Average Incomes, with 261,022.76 Standard Monetary Units.