The Federal Republic of Baltim is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by His Royal Eminence with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, ban on automobiles, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.684 billion Baltimians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blior. The average income tax rate is 94.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Baltimian economy, worth a remarkable 5,349 trillion Credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 341,104 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and the word 'elite' appears as a synonym for various insults in the Baltimian Colonial Thesaurus. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baltim's national animal is the Wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Voodoo.

Baltim is ranked 2,293^rd in the world and 94^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 139.85 law-abiding acts per hour.