The 2nd Socialist Republic of Bessarasia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Alaina Tereshkova with a fair hand, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.988 billion Bessarasians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, corrupt, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyotrsvic. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bessarasian economy, worth a remarkable 3,469 trillion Fauxres 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 Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 289,403 Fauxres, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom, the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five, foreign converts are illuminated by both missionaries and helicopter searchlights, and tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bessarasia's national animal is the Bessarasian Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Rasian Orthodox.

Bessarasia is ranked 1,909^th in the world and 59^th in Europe for Most Developed, scoring 98.05 on the Human Development Index.