The Kingdom of Castilla y Belmonte is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 20.495 billion Castilla y Belmonteans are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Castilla y Belmontean economy, worth a remarkable 2,326 trillion pesetas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 113,498 pesetas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 432,652 per year while the poor average 20,610, a ratio of 21.0 to 1.

The government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, and the children of Castilla y Belmonte are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Castilla y Belmonte's national animal is the bull, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Castilla y Belmonte is ranked 184,926^th in the world and 66^th in Greater Dienstad for Largest Governments, scoring 11.31 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.