The Republic of City bowl is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its burgeoning tiger population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.065 billion City bowlians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The thriving City bowlian economy, worth 239 trillion guilders a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 78,063 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 276,321 per year while the poor average 15,923, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. City bowl's national animal is the tiger.

City bowl is ranked 146,762^nd in the world and 5,664^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 3.06 billion capita.