The Kingdom of Bortavia is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by King Donovan III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.112 billion Bortavians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Farvon. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Bortavian economy, worth 939 trillion Bortavian Rublias a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,542 Bortavian Rublias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bortavia's national animal is the Old Oax, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Verdigrisism.

Bortavia is ranked 67,002^nd in the world and 10^th in Aceon for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,518.88 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.