The Corporate Federal States of Baskiva is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by supreme oligarch speer's with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.255 billion Baskivans 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, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karsia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Baskivan economy, worth 885 trillion balts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 208,054 balts, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,878,520 per year while the poor average 2,792, a ratio of 672 to 1.

The government is reining in public spending, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, when shaking hands with foreign leaders supreme oligarch speer's wears an armoured gauntlet, and it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baskiva's national animal is the death hound, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is secularism.

Baskiva is ranked 176,587^th in the world and 2,639^th in the South Pacific for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,059.89 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.