The Federal Republic of Burgerine is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 750 million Burgerineans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Doldrum. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Burgerinean economy, worth 29.2 trillion Ducats a year, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,976 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burgerine's national animal is the Blue-tongued skink, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Burgerine is ranked 215,118^th in the world and 3^rd in Thule Alba for Nicest Citizens, with 12 average smiles per day.