The Republic of Bilakovia is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 36 million Bilakovians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 56.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The developing Bilakovian economy, worth 935 billion Grovnyas a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,981 Grovnyas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bilakovia's national animal is the Bilakovian Eagle.

Bilakovia is ranked 78,086^th in the world and 4^th in Lucent for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 56.63 Effective Tax Rate.