The Republic of Bathopia is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.478 billion Bathopians 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, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Bathopian economy, worth 40.9 trillion Payback points a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,644 Payback points, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law, the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and extreme hiring regulations mean a job in Bathopia is often a lifetime appointment. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bathopia's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bathopia is ranked 283,931^st in the world and 10,865^th in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -13.19 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.