The Hive of Burrock is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nga with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.451 billion Burrockians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Burrock Brood. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.7%.

The Burrockian economy, worth 332 trillion lifeflows a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 39,364 lifeflows, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

All guns must be registered, hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings, female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast, and takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burrock's national animal is the scorpion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is evolution.

Burrock is ranked 287,629^th in the world and 35^th in Dixie for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.06 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.