The Desert Town of Borrego Springs is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Desert Environmentalist with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 24.721 billion Borrego Springsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Christmas Circle. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Borrego Springsian economy, worth a remarkable 7,280 trillion dollars 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 294,524 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, and the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics. Crime is totally unknown. Borrego Springs's national animal is the big horned sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Environmentalism.

Borrego Springs is ranked 1,305^th in the world and 2^nd in The Desert for Nicest Citizens, with 85.77 average smiles per day.