The United Socialist Republic of Bailatrason is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Noah Mullins with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.743 billion Bailaian are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pickipam. The average income tax rate is 53.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Bailish economy, worth 220 trillion Bailaian Kronor a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,337 Bailaian Kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, children keel over while singing "Noah Mullins Gives Us the Water of Life", children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, and the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bailatrason's national animal is the Bailaian Elk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Bailatrason is ranked 53,196^th in the world and 721^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,112.64 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.