The Republic of BARC Trooper 15 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-working population of 1.454 billion BARC Trooper 15ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 31.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The BARC Trooper 15ian economy, worth 63.2 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 43,474 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales, anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away, kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BARC Trooper 15's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BARC Trooper 15 is ranked 238,272^nd in the world and 7^th in Horrible Badness for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 29,606.46 Standard Monetary Units.