The Republic of Borchos is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 1.795 billion Borchosians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 52.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Borchosian economy, worth 112 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 62,316 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Aplix Dung" has been declared a national treasure, builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', and conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Borchos's national animal is the aplix, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Borchos is ranked 197,110^th in the world and 10^th in Global Coalition for Humanity for Most Developed, scoring 53.06 on the Human Development Index.