The Principality of Backbergen is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 382 million Backbergenians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Göstatornsby. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Backbergenian economy, worth 12.3 trillion Bergiska Dalers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 32,188 Bergiska Dalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protestors are soaking piles of Bergiska Dalers in blood to make a point about government incomes, the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine, all industry is owned and run by the government, and Harry Potter books are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Backbergen's national animal is the Moose, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Backbergen is ranked 106,134^th in the world and 29^th in Rosaria for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 1,641.45 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.