The People's Republic of Botto is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 18 million Bottoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The developing Bottoan economy, worth 510 billion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,383 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and where there's smoke there's the Bottoan Forestry Department. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Botto's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Botto is ranked 182,092^nd in the world and 273^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 81.73 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.