The Republic of BCC 25 is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 2.426 billion BCC 25ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 39.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient BCC 25ian economy, worth 94.9 trillion marks a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,129 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, courtrooms can be a little sketchy, and the government is dead set on letting people rest in peace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BCC 25's national animal is the cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BCC 25 is ranked 195,313^th in the world and 5,012^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 313.03 on the Gilded Widget Scale.