The State of Baton Lee is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 34.947 billion Baton Leeans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The powerhouse Baton Leean economy, worth a remarkable 1,733 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 49,614 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 151,561 per year while the poor average 12,588, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

All tariffs have been abolished, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory minature radios, and Baton Lee has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Baton Lee's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Baton Lee is ranked 260,726^th in the world and 334^th in State for Highest Poor Incomes, with 12,588.69 Standard Monetary Units.