The Astral Knight of Belleroph is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Callisto with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, prohibition of alcohol, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 2.228 billion Bellerophans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — prioritizes Education, with Industry, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Defense is ignored. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Bellerophian economy, worth 239 trillion Pegasus Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 107,314 Pegasus Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has nearly as many history museums as Bellerophans, the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, people who have lived their entire lives in Belleroph are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belleroph's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pegasus Worship.

Belleroph is ranked 5,483^rd in the world and 141^st in the Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 113.76 law-abiding acts per hour.