The Kingdom of Bortavia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Disputed with an even hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 7.077 billion Bortavians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Farvon. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Bortavian economy, worth 430 trillion Bortavian Rublias a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 60,794 Bortavian Rublias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, Bortavian-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways, adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère, and citizens need to demonstrate a complete set of dental records to throw five bucks in a hobo's hat. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bortavia's national animal is the Old Oax, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Verdigrisism.

Bortavia is ranked 88,066^th in the world and 68^th in Barbaria for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 92.58 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.