The Republic of Babstan is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 7.883 billion Babstanians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 14.9%.

The Babstanian economy, worth 349 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 44,306 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Surveillance cameras are banned, heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, and peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop. Crime is a problem. Babstan's national animal is the bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Babstan is ranked 82,104^th in the world and 2^nd in The Wandering Desert for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,830.26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.