The Antexic Commonwealth of Barrnary is a massive, safe nation, ruled by William Stuart with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.002 billion Barrnarians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lyndon. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Barrnary economy, worth 63.0 trillion Quid a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 62,912 Quid, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sections of the police receive paramilitary training, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", the government pours millions of Quid into rehabilitation programs annually, and facial disfigurement is a leading cause of supervillainy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Barrnary's national animal is the Hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Barrnary is ranked 191,290^th in the world and 182^nd in Declansburg for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -1.41 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.