The Fascist Dictatorship of Baskerdale is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Roberto Salazar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.424 billion Baskerdaleans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lumos. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Baskerdalean economy, worth a remarkable 2,425 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 195,237 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers, government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately, unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave, and Baskerdale's free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baskerdale's national animal is the Sealion, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Christianity.

Baskerdale is ranked 10,436^th in the world and 3^rd in Historopolis for Lowest Crime Rates, with 100.24 law-abiding acts per hour.