The Just A Lore's Just a Nation of Belis is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 17.618 billion Lisarians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.6%.

The Belisian economy, worth a remarkable 1,007 trillion Oceanic Tresks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 57,177 Oceanic Tresks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news, weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments, sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes, and animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Belis's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Belis is ranked 214,148^th in the world and 26^th in Be Gay Do Crimes for Highest Food Quality, scoring 10.8 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.