The People's Republic of Bota Maritima is a large, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 103 million Bota Maritimen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 22.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Bota Maritiman economy, worth 4.41 trillion golden coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 42,850 golden coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is proudly free of crabs, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, Harry Potter books are banned, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bota Maritima's national animal is the Seal.

Bota Maritima is ranked 48,389^th in the world and 13^th in Divorced Nations of Earth for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,934.05 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.