The State of Baltimaad is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 23.439 billion Baltimaadians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Public Transport, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The thriving Baltimaadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,191 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 50,851 betales, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 269,628 per year while the poor average 5,074, a ratio of 53.1 to 1.

The police have taken to prying guns out of the cold fingers of Baltimaadians, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow, and lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Baltimaad's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Baltimaad is ranked 5,507^th in the world and 1^st in Baltimaad for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 133.24 on the Bus Surprisal Index.