The Kingdom of The Barslands is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 442 million Barslandsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Barslandsian economy, worth 16.2 trillion baht 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 Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is 36,621 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, and worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Barslands's national animal is the porpoise, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Barslands is ranked 94,378^th in the world and 1,051^st in the West Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 15.68 flags saluted per person per day.