The Constitutional Monarchy of Baroque is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 329 million Baroqueans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration are also considered important. The average income tax rate is 44.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Baroquean economy, worth 10.2 trillion doubloons a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,102 doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Baroque City make great practice for foreign snipers, and drunk drivers are sentenced to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baroque's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Baroque is ranked 19,419^th in the world and 154^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 23.07 average smiles per day.