The People's Republic of Ballssa is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working population of 833 million ballssians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The very strong ballssian economy, worth 43.7 trillion forkts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 52,470 forkts, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 240,633 per year while the poor average 6,950, a ratio of 34.6 to 1.

Ballssa has designated Ballssa City as its capital city, corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, and economists claim no news is good news. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ballssa's national animal is the none, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ballssa is ranked 80,530^th in the world and 2,966^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 582.91 pounds of wildlife per square mile.