The BFB Team of -iance- is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, public floggings, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.954 billion -iance-ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong -iance-ian economy, worth 132 trillion blehs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 67,881 blehs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens must have a license to operate a computer, people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, and a major religion has been named as -iance-'s national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -iance-'s national animal is the bleh, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

-iance- is ranked 129,658^th in the world and 9^th in BFB Teams for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,518.93 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.