The Commonwealth of Barraintania is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its daily referendums, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 222 million Barraintanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 27.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Barraintanian economy, worth 16.2 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,133 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary, the tobacco industry has burnt out, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, and the government guarantees that tourists will have the ultimate trip on their trips. Crime is totally unknown. Barraintania's national animal is the Tufted Titumouse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Barraintania is ranked 300,427^th in the world and 2,465^th in the South Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 19.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.