The Holy Empire of Babe is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 32.038 billion Babeans 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Social Policy, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 60.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Babean economy, worth 573 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 17,910 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is well under control, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Babe's national animal is the eagle.

Babe is ranked 135,529^th in the world and 4^th in Topid for Nicest Citizens, with 12 average smiles per day.