The United Republic of Bilistan is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.28 billion Bilistanians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Goldwoods. The average income tax rate is 65.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Bilistanian economy, worth 33.0 trillion Jozzes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 25,761 Jozzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Bilistanian democracy, and Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bilistan's national animal is the Wild Blue Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bilistan is ranked 226,436^th in the world and 12,154^th in Balder for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.04 percentage of bribes refused.