The Borough of Battersea is a gargantuan, pleasant nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 29.054 billion Batterseans 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 29.3%.

The strong Battersean economy, worth 763 trillion British pounds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Retail, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 26,293 British pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.4 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is compulsory, citizens select which government department gets their income tax British pounds each year, citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes, and education and welfare spending are on the rise. Crime is moderate. Battersea's national animal is the dolphin.

Battersea is ranked 252,288^th in the world and 7^th in Albion for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 23.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.