The Ginseng Strip 2002 of Baja Calivada is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Jeane Santángel with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, absence of drug laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 7.335 billion Californian enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sacramento. The average income tax rate is 82.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Californian economy, worth 811 trillion Cali Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 110,649 Cali Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, and dentists routinely perform open heart surgery. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baja Calivada's national animal is the Tupla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Scientology.

Baja Calivada is ranked 311,678^th in the world and 12,555^th in Balder for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -20.2 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.