The Federal Republic of Biot-Savart is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Belle Ampere with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.784 billion Savartines are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coulomb. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Biot-Savartian economy, worth 678 trillion lire a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 141,906 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Biot-Savartian weed picker are way up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Biot-Savart's national animal is the hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Biot-Savart is ranked 283,824^th in the world and 3,983^rd in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -406.65 on the Scary Big Number Scale.