The Corporate Federal States of Baskiva is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by supreme oligarch speer's with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.71 billion Baskivans are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Karsia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 44.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Baskivan economy, worth 561 trillion balts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 207,189 balts, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,868,249 per year while the poor average 2,814, a ratio of 663 to 1.

Cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy, prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet, and Supreme oligarch speer's has killer fashion sense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Baskiva's national animal is the death hound, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is secularism.

Baskiva is ranked 280,716^th in the world and 5,586^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 2,814.9 Standard Monetary Units.