The Kingdom of Balmorain is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 508 million Balmorainians 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 medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Swellview. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Balmorainian economy, worth 35.3 trillion Balmorain dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, and Retail. Average income is 69,444 Balmorain dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', rare steaks seem even bluer now, a soldier's body is a temple, and there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Balmorain's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Balmorain is ranked 110,937^th in the world and 41^st in Lands End for Most Developed, scoring 59.59 on the Human Development Index.