The Borderlands of Byzkat is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 893 million Byzkatians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 39.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Byzkatian economy, worth 25.3 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,293 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Recognizing the Byzkatian flag qualifies you for citizenship, Byzkatians submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card, museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Byzkat's national animal is the vulture, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Byzkat is ranked 175,872^nd in the world and 8,904^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 48.55 on the Hayek Index.