The Commonwealth of Booking is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.48 billion Bookingians 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Libretown. The average income tax rate is 66.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bookingian economy, worth 98.1 trillion lifecoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 66,306 lifecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Where there's smoke there's the Bookingian Forestry Department, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and when their backs are against the walls Bookingians look out for gay men. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Booking's national animal is the poticha, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Booking is ranked 141,918^th in the world and 1,780^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 591.58 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.