The Bizarre World of Betashock is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Jackie Beta with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.494 billion Betas are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Beta City. The average income tax rate is 86.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Betashockian economy, worth 648 trillion Betacoins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 144,195 Betacoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The national colors help to make everyone look slimmer, historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism, the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, and there is no such thing as an innocent fling in the Betashockian military. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Betashock's national animal is the puppygirl, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Betashock is ranked 18,759^th in the world and 3^rd in ACA for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 290.41 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.