The Commonwealth of Batcountry is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Duke with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and aversion to nipples. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 8.494 billion Batcountryians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lost Wages. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Batcountryian economy, worth a remarkable 1,588 trillion tokes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 187,047 tokes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate, the government guarantees that tourists will have the ultimate trip on their trips, everything stops come summertime, and primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit. Crime is totally unknown. Batcountry's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Batcountry is ranked 5,720^th in the world and 13^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Cultured, scoring 148 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.