The Beanic Bean-state of Bean is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by B E A N with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.729 billion Beanics are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Administration, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of beania. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Beanian economy, worth 770 trillion beans 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, 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 162,888 beans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, untold millions of beans are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, and protestors are soaking piles of beans in blood to make a point about government incomes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bean's national animal is the beanimal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is beanium.

Bean is ranked 159,344^th in the world and 3^rd in Runcina ex Praegrandis Entia for Most Extreme, scoring 18.24 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.