The Confederation of Baltic Peoples is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the All-Confederation Council Assembly with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.59 billion Baltics 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 medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Associated Councils of Baliaumic. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Baltic economy, worth 148 trillion Average Need Satisfaction Index units 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 93,669 Average Need Satisfaction Index units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, and politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech. Crime is well under control. Baltic Peoples's national animal is the Bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Finding God to Abolish Them.

Baltic Peoples is ranked 7,061^st in the world and 10^th in Anarchy for Highest Food Quality, scoring 184.18 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.