The Republic of Borusha is a fledgling, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 6 million Borushans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 52.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The weak Borushan economy, worth 129 billion Gadežs a year, is led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Soda Sales, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 21,573 Gadežs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Posing for pictures is an integral part of military training, the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas, people with dyslexia are told to tough through it, and comedians who make offensive jokes have their ticket proceeds seized. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Borusha's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Borusha is ranked 171,349^th in the world and 2,287^th in the South Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 613.76 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.