The Boutique Empire of Bassiliya is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by the Emperor with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.402 billion Bassiliyans 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.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is primarily concerned with Healthcare, with Defense, Administration, and Environment also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Otoklis. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Bassiliyan economy, worth 246 trillion Kairmas a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Cheese Exports industry. Average income is 26,230 Kairmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain, government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet, and the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bassiliya's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Otoism.

Bassiliya is ranked 96,441^st in the world and 41^st in Thegye for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 252.28 on the Clooney Contribution Index.