The New Junta of Baltanica is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Junta Council with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.385 billion Baltans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tallinn. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 58.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Baltanic economy, worth 917 trillion Kroons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 124,304 Kroons, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Some say Junta Council has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons, citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?", they say that Baltans made a dessert and called it peace, and wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baltanica's national animal is the Lynx, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Baltanica is ranked 105,651^st in the world and 4,314^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 7.38 billion capita.