The Principality of Burback is a mammoth, genial nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.257 billion Burbackians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Binghamton. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Burbackian economy, worth 971 trillion dollars a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,646 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, every school is receiving a brand new eraser, and where there's smoke there's the Burbackian Forestry Department. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burback's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Burback is ranked 8,527^th in the world and 347^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 91.71 on the Human Development Index.