The Federation of Bat Out Of Hell is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, keen interest in outer space, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate, devout population of 1.616 billion Bat Out Of Hellians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 55.7%.

The all-consuming Bat Out Of Hellian economy, worth 169 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,594 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The kiwi is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, and foreign lack of enthusiasm for Bat Out Of Hellian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bat Out Of Hell's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bat Out Of Hell is ranked 285,299^th in the world and 9^th in Meat Loaf for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -8.95 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.