The State of Emerald Beach is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and notable for its complete lack of public education and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 22.757 billion Emerald Beachians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Industry, with Environment also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.1%.

The thriving Emerald Beachian economy, worth 872 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 38,358 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 111,090 per year while the poor average 10,496, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Voting is voluntary, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, Emerald Beach has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Emerald Beach in an international press conference. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Emerald Beach's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Emerald Beach is ranked 232,604^th in the world and 499^th in Ancient Lands for Safest, scoring 19.37 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.