The Empire of Second Bantu is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 10 million Bantus are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Bantu economy, worth 185 billion Francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 18,525 Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, government employees from Second Bantu dominate international lumberjack competitions, rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, and foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Bantu's national animal is the African Savanna Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Second Bantu is ranked 93,944^th in the world and 541^st in Europe for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,016.29 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.