The Great Love Story of Beta Couple is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Wingman with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.018 billion foils 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradise. The average income tax rate is 61.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient the foil economy, worth a remarkable 2,782 trillion loves a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 277,717 loves, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has the power to seize property at will, sending sick politicians "Get Well Soon" cards is considered bribery, bilingual foils are viewed with suspicion, and maximum security the foil subway stations inspire prison systems around the world. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Beta Couple's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Cards.

Beta Couple is ranked 5,800^th in the world and 169^th in The North Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 108,032.25 Standard Monetary Units.