The Free Land of Borkey Kurg is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Council of Borkurgian Progress with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.559 billion Borkurgians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Administration, Healthcare, and Environment also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Borkey Kurg. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Borkurgian economy, worth 474 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 133,242 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts, surveillance cameras are banned, and power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Borkey Kurg's national animal is the Albatros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Borkey Kurg is ranked 10,419^th in the world and 456^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 118 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.