The Basketball Association of Koryian is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Commisioner Nico with an iron fist, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, ubiquitous missile silos, and triple-decker prams. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 3.231 billion Basketball Players 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basketballandia. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Basketball Player economy, worth 248 trillion Basketballs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,969 Basketballs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt, farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep, parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend, and Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Koryian's national animal is the Basketball Player, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Koryian is ranked 113,064^th in the world and 4,138^th in Osiris for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,710.68 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.