The People's Democratic States of Barbintra is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Governor Joseph Genter with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, triple-decker prams, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.994 billion Barbintraniteses are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Genter. The average income tax rate is 84.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Barbintran economy, worth a remarkable 2,034 trillion Coppers a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Retail, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an amazing 254,491 Coppers, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

Truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill, takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears, commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year, and new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Barbintra's national animal is the Unicorn, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Holy Church of the Highest Mind.

Barbintra is ranked 1,907^th in the world and 4^th in Lone Wolves United for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 17,001.71 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.