The Dexterian Republic of Bawkie is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Nahmon Jaaqisidad with an even hand, and renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 13.447 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 4,601 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 342,159 Bawks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, and going on a diet invalidates your passport. 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 1,770^th in the world and 47^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 842.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.