The Proletarian Dictatorship of Baskar is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Communal Directorate of Workers with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.775 billion Baskarians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Proletariaatri. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Baskariany economy, worth a remarkable 2,508 trillion Sklis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 256,634 Sklis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Representatives soak in mineral pools at the new capitol building day spa, wars are forgotten but not forgiven, emergency responders spend more time in the air than giving air, and the black market offers sweet deals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Baskar's national animal is the Whale, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Constitutional Atheism of State.

Baskar is ranked 1,600^th in the world and 19^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 295 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.