The Colony of Beta Destiny is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.006 billion Demon Soldiers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 80.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Demonic economy, worth 42.3 trillion Devil Dusts 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 a large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Trout Farming and Arms Manufacturing. 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 14,087 Devil Dusts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Overhead luggage compartments on trains sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, the government forces Demon Soldiers to eat their vegetables, and corrupt officials have adopted the greater good as their catchphrase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Beta Destiny's national animal is the Fly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beta Destiny is ranked 307,905^th in the world and 1^st in Sertia for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 7.91 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.