The NationStates ~~TYPE~~ of A Badly Conceived Designation is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by ~~LEADER~~ with an iron fist, and renowned for its lack of airports, national health service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.543 billion ~~DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL~~ are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ~~CAPITAL~~. The average income tax rate is 27.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ~~DEMONYMADJECTIVE~~ economy, worth a remarkable 3,499 trillion ~~CURRENCY~~s a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 188,703 ~~CURRENCY~~s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

A significant number of ~~ANIMAL~~s are being prosecuted on charges of child abuse, it's rare to find an unchewed pencil, minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander, and foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. A Badly Conceived Designation's national animal is the ~~ANIMAL~~, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is ~~FAITH~~.

A Badly Conceived Designation is ranked 287,216^th in the world and 37^th in Testregionia for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -799.27 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.