The Dexterian Republic of Bawkie is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Sasna Daisaharim with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful population of 13.361 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 Education, Administration, 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 4,571 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 practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk, children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet, witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, and the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes. 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 290,427^th in the world and 5,455^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -34.47 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.