The Republic of Basiliania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Basilianian Government with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, rampant corporate plagiarism, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 17.791 billion Basilianians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aequalitas. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Basilianian economy, worth a remarkable 3,357 trillion Basilianums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 188,692 Basilianums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', and law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Basiliania's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Basiliania is ranked 273,957^th in the world and 176^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Primitive, scoring -268.9 on the Scary Big Number Scale.