The Republic of Bankowiata is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Strong AI with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.841 billion Bankowiatans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bankowiata City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bankowiatan economy, worth a remarkable 2,581 trillion Virtual Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 329,218 Virtual Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has nearly as many history museums as Bankowiatans, sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors, Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Bankowiata City to enjoy their national art, and access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bankowiata's national animal is the Hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Bankowiata is ranked 293^rd in the world and 17^th in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 34,578.99 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.