The Watchfires of Bad-1 is a titanic, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 21.514 billion Bad-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 58.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Bad-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,940 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,212 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, sheep-like political loyalists repeat the mantra "one wheel bad, three wheels good", and exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bad-1's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Bad-1 is ranked 157,556^th in the world and 1^st in Badlands for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 37,348.07 Standard Monetary Units.