The State of Bauline is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 26.844 billion Baulineans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 78.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Baulinean economy, worth 451 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 16,829 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, cars are banned, and Bauline has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bauline's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bauline is ranked 26,777^th in the world and 1^st in Kuala Lumpur for Safest, scoring 110.67 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.