The Empire of Baikala is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Godric the Great with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and parental licensing program. The cynical, devout population of 9.427 billion Compagnians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Healthcare, with Law & Order, Welfare, and Defense also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastonne. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Baikalan economy, worth 473 trillion Tenthweights 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, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 50,204 Tenthweights, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and both criminals and civilians are DOA. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baikala's national animal is the Griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Cordialism.

Baikala is ranked 295,361^st in the world and 528^th in Starlight for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring -10.2 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.