The Republic of Bavoux is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Mercutio Romero with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 4.371 billion Bavouxians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Toia. The average income tax rate is 24.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Bavouxian economy, worth 225 trillion euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,539 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions, child labor has been outlawed, mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bavoux's national animal is the weasel, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Erohwie.

Bavoux is ranked 246,599^th in the world and 12^th in The Commonwealth of Crowns for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.87 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.