The Most Serene Republic of Basil omor is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 943 million flowers are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong one of basil's flowers economy, worth 52.9 trillion jump ropeses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Average income is 56,092 jump ropeses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

People accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, more and more students are taking up a career in medicine, political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, and new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Basil omor's national animal is the sunflower, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Basil omor is ranked 34,838^th in the world and 1^st in HVMUN for Safest, scoring 107.43 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.