The NationStates ~~TYPE~~ of A Badly Conceived Designation is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by ~~LEADER~~ with an iron fist, and notable for its teetotalling pirates, avowedly heterosexual populace, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.438 billion ~~DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL~~ 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ~~CAPITAL~~. The average income tax rate is 22.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ~~DEMONYMADJECTIVE~~ economy, worth a remarkable 3,372 trillion ~~CURRENCY~~s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 182,934 ~~CURRENCY~~s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, the government props up questionable pizza establishments in the name of health, raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, and years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. A Badly Conceived Designation's national animal is the ~~ANIMAL~~, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is ~~FAITH~~.

A Badly Conceived Designation is ranked 62^nd in the world and 1^st in Testregionia for Most Primitive, scoring 741.42 on the Scary Big Number Scale.