The State of West Bentley is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 17.731 billion West Bentleyians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The very strong West Bentleyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,152 trillion betales 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 Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 65,024 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 317,526 per year while the poor average 7,656, a ratio of 41.5 to 1.

A large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs, West Bentley has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of West Bentley in an international press conference. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. West Bentley's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

West Bentley is ranked 228,222^nd in the world and 1^st in Falklands for Most Beautiful Environments, with 416.07 pounds of wildlife per square mile.