The Emirate of Bovabia is a massive, orderly nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 2.506 billion Bovabians 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 Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bovabian economy, worth 17.2 trillion baht 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 6,853 baht, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bovabia's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bovabia is ranked 217,943^rd in the world and 7^th in Realm for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 28.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.