The Commonwealth of Baqar is a colossal, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 2.839 billion Baqari 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madau. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Baqari economy, worth 144 trillion Dams a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Information Technology. Average income is 50,976 Dams, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, and no one is quite sure what many government officials look like. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baqar's national animal is the Commonwealth Flower, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Caoism.

Baqar is ranked 302,656^th in the world and 152^nd in The Western Isles for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.