The Federation of Balibistan is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.538 billion Balibis 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ecofurt. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Balibian economy, worth 97.3 trillion Bamfs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 63,292 Bamfs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour', bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, and the fattest folk in Balibistan look to be the happiest ones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Balibistan's national animal is the Bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Asatru.

Balibistan is ranked 282,690^th in the world and 4,468^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 56 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.