The Free Land of Birczia is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 130 million Bircziis 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Birczian economy, worth 3.64 trillion Leaves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 28,003 Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, Leader can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees, the World Free Land Games have been won again by Birczia as no other country cares enough to compete, and beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Birczia's national animal is the Birch Tree, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Birczia is ranked 291,650^th in the world and 5,544^th in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 28,003.01 Standard Monetary Units.