The Apostolic Preserve of Birch Tree Republic is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 2.838 billion Birch Tree Republicans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birchboro. The average income tax rate is 57.6%.

The powerhouse Birch Tree Republician economy, worth 282 trillion Birch Bucks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 99,473 Birch Bucks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, the path to inner peace is paved with state-mandated punishment, the official Birch Tree Republician Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child, and foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birch Tree Republic's national animal is the Nesting Bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Birch Tree Republic is ranked 141,150^th in the world and 2^nd in Wild Birch Forest for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,260.34 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.