The Free Land of Beautiful People 229 is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 7.193 billion Beautiful People 229ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.3%.

The powerhouse Beautiful People 229ian economy, worth 646 trillion Humanities a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,882 Humanities, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 308,894 per year while the poor average 19,178, a ratio of 16.1 to 1.

Police escort anti-abortion activists to free speech cages if they try to express their views, the government is spending billions of taxpayer Humanities to support "struggling" industries, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and politicians are battling inequality by declaring themselves better than everyone else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Beautiful People 229's national animal is the Anthropologist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Beautiful People 229 is ranked 141,839^th in the world and 41^st in People are Beautiful for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.71 law-abiding acts per hour.