The Conglomerate of Free States of Bitkna is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by CEO Jerry Mandarin with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 6.857 billion Bitknans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Industry, with Defense also on the agenda, while Environment and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elysium. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Bitknan economy, worth a remarkable 1,240 trillion Bitcredits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 180,912 Bitcredits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,643,514 per year while the poor average 2,292, a ratio of 716 to 1.

CEO Jerry Mandarin has killer fashion sense, the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and AI citizens think only in binary. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Bitkna's national animal is the Gadsden Snake, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Capitalism.

Bitkna is ranked 748^th in the world and 1^st in Estanova for Highest Drug Use, scoring 413.27 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.