The Republic of Showy Bastet is a mammoth, pleasant nation, renowned for its suspicion of poets. The hard-working population of 8.056 billion Showy Bastetians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 14.8%.

The Showy Bastetian economy, worth 302 trillion debens a year, is led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 37,541 debens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Contestants on Showy Bastet's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is moderate. Showy Bastet's national animal is the cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Showy Bastet is ranked 253,720^th in the world and 2^nd in United Nations of Calebia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 14.78 Effective Tax Rate.