The Peaceful Island of Belalu is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Lady Demetrá Vayna de Emelyne with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, ritual sacrifices, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.6 billion Belaluans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Béla. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Belaluan economy, worth 617 trillion Lugoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 110,231 Lugoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal, trains and passengers alike are often late, and tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belalu's national animal is the Fruit Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Belalu is ranked 14,877^th in the world and 2^nd in Astrasia for Largest Governments, scoring 33 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.