The Commonwealth of Bastilom is a huge, safe nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 542 million Bastilomians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sneedsburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.7%.

The all-consuming Bastilomian economy, worth 55.7 trillion Bastilomian shillings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 102,688 Bastilomian shillings, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 466,280 per year while the poor average 13,850, a ratio of 33.7 to 1.

Young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus, millions of simultaneously backfiring toilets have flooded Sneedsburg with effluent, it's hard to speak ill of the dead when you don't speak of them at all, and the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bastilom's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bastilom is ranked 325,695^th in the world and 16^th in New Lacia for Highest Drug Use, scoring 2.6 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.