The Emirate of Biscay Bay is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its frequent executions and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 503 million Biscs 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Biscay City. The average income tax rate is 27.1%.

The Biscay economy, worth 25.1 trillion chus a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Soda Sales, and Gambling. Average income is 49,954 chus, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments, the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, and unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Biscay City make great practice for foreign snipers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Biscay Bay's national animal is the white tern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Biscay Bay is ranked 240,722^nd in the world and 5,459^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.