The World's Largest Selection of Beer Wine and Spirits is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Bartender with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 3.458 billion drunks enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Bar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The strong drunk economy, worth 207 trillion bottles a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,894 bottles, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 359,817 per year while the poor average 4,505, a ratio of 79.9 to 1.

Bartender has just been declared ruler of Beer Wine and Spirits in an international press conference, Booze has been named as Beer Wine and Spirits's national religion, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Beer Wine and Spirits's national animal is the Spuds McKenzie, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Booze.

Beer Wine and Spirits is ranked 154,262^nd in the world and 26^th in Atlantis for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 64.03 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.