The Free Democracy of Ballotonia is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Ballo with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 46.57 billion Ballons are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Education, with Administration, Industry, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tulipolis. The average income tax rate is 36.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ballotonian economy, worth an astonishing 15,496 trillion Levs a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 332,763 Levs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit, sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", and 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past. Crime is totally unknown. Ballotonia's national animal is the Penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Ballotonia is ranked 3,810^th in the world and 3^rd in Nederland for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 21,818.25 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.