The Most Serene Social Republic of Battadia is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Hermann Schlott with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 12.123 billion Battadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saydt. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Battadian economy, worth a remarkable 3,757 trillion guiders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an amazing 309,946 guiders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, behind every great person are three dozen other people passing great memos, debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace, and preservative manufacturers are told to put a lid on it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Battadia's national animal is the bee, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Battadia is ranked 1,804^th in the world and 1^st in The Kodiak Republic for Most Cultured, scoring 278 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.