The Watchfires of BH-1 is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, pith helmet sales, and compulsory military service. The compassionate population of 21.807 billion BH-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 48.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient BH-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,996 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,536 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun, and orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BH-1's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

BH-1 is ranked 20,866^th in the world and 1^st in Boko Haram for Largest Black Market, with 153 trillion Standard Monetary Units.