The Cursed Realm of Baael is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 13.385 billion Baaelians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Baaelian economy, worth 469 trillion topaz rings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Cheese Exports, Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 35,055 topaz rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baael's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Baael is ranked 117,695^th in the world and 3,909^th in Osiris for Most Primitive, scoring -33.17 on the Scary Big Number Scale.