The Commonwealth of Bobadyk is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Sotha Sil with an iron fist, and remarkable for its digital currency, soft-spoken computers, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.519 billion Bobadykians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bodabykinn I. The average income tax rate is 18.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Bobadykian economy, worth 750 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 166,019 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The doctor has cold hands, there's a mortuary next to every Bobadykian restaurant, immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps, and tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bobadyk's national animal is the Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Bobadyk is ranked 303,583^rd in the world and 4,941^st in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 6.83 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.