The Republic of Balticana is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 878 million Balticanans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Balticana. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Balticanan economy, worth 82.4 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Gambling. Average income is 93,877 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 708,847 per year while the poor average 3,518, a ratio of 201 to 1.

Large areas of Balticana are not accessible by the public, people at rock bottom are handed a shovel and a cold one, commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year, and police reduce their paperwork by refusing to arrest anyone. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Balticana's national animal is the Leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Balticana is ranked 30,658^th in the world and 481^st in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,622.75 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.