The Federal Republic of Basilei is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Helmut Ernst with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.299 billion Basileians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basileia. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Basileian economy, worth 277 trillion Basileian Kroner 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 120,640 Basileian Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education, consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Basilei's national animal is the Ibices, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Basilei is ranked 1,771^st in the world and 72^nd in The Communist Bloc for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 4,287.11 on the Clooney Contribution Index.