The 3rd United Socialist States of Baaas is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Benatsa Tsanitso with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.066 billion Baaasians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jergeb. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Baaasian economy, worth 172 trillion Baeghotts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 83,627 Baeghotts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, the military has gone fission for more funding, weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future, and airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baaas's national animal is the Baasian Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Baaas is ranked 203,551^st in the world and 99^th in Confederacy of Layem for Most Primitive, scoring -116.12 on the Scary Big Number Scale.