The Railroad States of Baltanla is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Quoc Phi Nguyen with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, parental licensing program, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.833 billion Baltanese 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baltanla City and Hanoia. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Baltanese economy, worth a remarkable 1,425 trillion Auroes 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 large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 161,355 Auroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Comatose jurors are the defense's favorite, scientific ethics are on the chopping block, prospective secessionists nervously declare how worthless and unimportant they are, and crops are flattened as farmers bludgeon insects to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baltanla's national animal is the Balls, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Buddhism.

Baltanla is ranked 22,334^th in the world and 68^th in Concord for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,135.69 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.