The Federation of Bardaevia is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and daily referendums. The hard-working population of 116 million Bardaevs 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 19.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Bardaevian economy, worth 6.29 trillion Freedom Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is 54,208 Freedom Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The justice of Bardaevia is considered superior to that of other nations, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, endangered species are effective hostages against the Bardaevian military, and environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bardaevia's national animal is the Steller's Sea Eagle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Bardaevia is ranked 252,325^th in the world and 71^st in Audinesca for Most Extreme, scoring 7.04 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.