The Crowned Republic of Betmet is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its national health service, flagrant waste-dumping, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.294 billion Betmetians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port des Roses. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Betmetian economy, worth a remarkable 1,345 trillion Ridgers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,699 Ridgers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description, scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new, and there is something rotten in the state of Betmet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Betmet's national animal is the Royal Bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Betmet is ranked 20,717^th in the world and 4^th in Ridgefield for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,019.97 on the Gilded Widget Scale.