The Watchfires of Boi-1 is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, avant-garde cinema, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, humorless population of 16.309 billion Boi-1ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Boi-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,432 trillion $$s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 87,838 $$s, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections, political commentators say that Leader's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped, armed security details escort librarians to their homes, and the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Boi-1's national animal is the Death's-head hawkmoth, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Boi-1 is ranked 163,351^st in the world and 1^st in Boise for Highest Food Quality, scoring 14.42 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.