The People's Republic of Botto is a small, genial nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 32 million Bottoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Bottoan economy, worth 699 billion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 21,844 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, the government is spending billions of florins on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, and sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Botto's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Botto is ranked 311,269^th in the world and 775^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 32.0 million capita.