The Nest of Birb is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Birb with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 3.752 billion birbs are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bird Nest. The average income tax rate is 90.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient birb economy, worth 821 trillion bird seeds a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 218,740 bird seeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arbitrary election rules are considered sacrosanct, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, political candidates recite daily pledges of loyalty to their chosen party, and there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birb's national animal is the birb, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Holy Birdseed.

Birb is ranked 13,952^nd in the world and 5^th in Refugia for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 30,119.47 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.