The State of Batoua is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 17.407 billion Batouans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 87.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Batouan economy, worth 45.9 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in 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 2,635 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace, Batoua has designated Westminster as its capital city, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Batoua in an international press conference, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Batoua's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Batoua is ranked 204,290^th in the world and 7^th in Democratic Republic of the Congo for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring zero on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.