The Galactic Kingdom of Resante Belan is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by King Johnny Peterson I with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, digital currency, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 869 million Resante Belanians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Royal City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 55.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Resante Belanian economy, worth 115 trillion UCP Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 132,422 UCP Credits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 812,761 per year while the poor average 9,443, a ratio of 86.1 to 1.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, and hospitals in Resante Belan are too busy serving the needs of United Confederation of Planets to see Resante Belanians. Crime is totally unknown. Resante Belan's national animal is the Yuitan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Resante Belan is ranked 40,277^th in the world and 6^th in United Confederation of Planets for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 58,398.54 Standard Monetary Units.