The Republic of -Bit Storage- is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.038 billion -Bit Storage-ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. The average income tax rate is 32.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The -Bit Storage-ian economy, worth 110 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 54,379 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of -Bit Storage-, well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time, and country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Bit Storage-'s national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

-Bit Storage- is ranked 124,071^st in the world and 578^th in junk for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,896.02 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.