The Violent Shyness of Bodere is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, frequent executions, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed population of 9.691 billion Bodereans 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 Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.3%.

The all-consuming Boderean economy, worth 828 trillion kronor a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,451 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 350,719 per year while the poor average 13,745, a ratio of 25.5 to 1.

Tweenage nobles order army regiments to do their homework for them, singles on the dating scene no longer worry about looking their age, the number of students attending university has reached a record high, and all screens are equal but some are more equal than others. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bodere's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bodere is ranked 254,215^th in the world and 4^th in Hikto for Smartest Citizens, with 21.58 quips per hour.