The Holy Bankish Empire of The Bankland is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Jameson with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.285 billion Bankish people 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, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Area 14. The average income tax rate is 45.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Bankish economy, worth 94.9 trillion Inches a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,886 Inches, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Mechanics are often exhausted by their work, suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, and Bankism has been named as The Bankland's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Bankland's national animal is the Sea Turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Bankism.

The Bankland is ranked 57,211^th in the world and 112^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Highest Food Quality, scoring 31.39 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.