The Dexterian Republic of Bawkie is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sasna Daisaharim with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful population of 13.354 billion Bawkiens are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mezqurbha Dzifatfatbawqur. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bawkien economy, worth a remarkable 4,569 trillion Bawks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 342,152 Bawks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories, new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, and children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bawkie's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Dexterism.

Bawkie is ranked 717^th in the world and 19^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 27,451.31 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.