The Unreported Sightings of Benevolent 1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mark Time with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 19.898 billion Benevolents are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellipsis. The average income tax rate is 91.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Benevolent economy, worth a remarkable 1,680 trillion Gorts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 84,435 Gorts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them, the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room, creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, and the only women behind bars are barmaids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Benevolent 1's national animal is the human-grey hybrid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gaianism.

Benevolent 1 is ranked 25,943^rd in the world and 2^nd in BENEVOLENT EMPIRE for Largest Governments, scoring 28.27 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.