The Republic of BARC Trooper 17 is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and otherworldly petting zoo. The compassionate population of 1.512 billion BARC Trooper 17ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 21.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient BARC Trooper 17ian economy, worth 63.5 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,007 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, the question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, the government single-handedly sustains the bunk bed market, and masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BARC Trooper 17's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BARC Trooper 17 is ranked 229,231^st in the world and 5^th in Summercrest for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,099.97 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.