The Free Democracy Loving People of Belgium Corporation is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jan Hesp with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.704 billion Belgians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of De Gigantische Frituur. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Belgian economy, worth 657 trillion Nieuwe Belgische Franks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 177,630 Nieuwe Belgische Franks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest national park is visited by more sharks than people, court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, and only vaccinated citizens may have free healthcare. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belgium Corporation's national animal is the Inefficient Bureaucrat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pastafarianism.

Belgium Corporation is ranked 26,235^th in the world and 1,536^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,149.4 on the Gilded Widget Scale.