The Empire of Walba is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Chatrapagi Anand with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.263 billion Walbans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walba City. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Walban economy, worth 583 trillion Lapas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 136,802 Lapas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists who publish a non-reproducible result are tarred and feathered, travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, frequent flyers are chiseled into statues, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Walba's national animal is the Takin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hinduism.

Walba is ranked 8,636^th in the world and 457^th in Lazarus for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 91.3 Effective Tax Rate.