The District of BWAT is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Liard with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.274 billion BWATians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 18.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped BWATian economy, worth 603 trillion districtas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,915 districtas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall, artificial intelligences seeking exciting work are overcome with ennui, and retail stores are known for creating their own oddly-similar holidays in the months preceding any major festivity. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BWAT's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

BWAT is ranked 86,251^st in the world and 1^st in An Alternate World for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,703.01 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.