The Allied States of Bhishma is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, frequent executions, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 333 million Bhishmen 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 relatively small government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Afar. The average income tax rate is 17.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Bhishman economy, worth 39.0 trillion dinars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 117,155 dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, the practice of capital punishment proves divisive, and adverts depict men giving birth while cursing the women who got them into trouble. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bhishma's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Bhishma is ranked 143,378^th in the world and 260^th in Conch Kingdom for Safest, scoring 63.16 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.