The Kingdom of The Basting Shoebox is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sir Sernda with an iron fist, and renowned for its national health service, parental licensing program, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 24.098 billion Basting Shoeboxians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Basting Cheetah. The average income tax rate is 99.6%.

The Basting Shoeboxian economy, worth a remarkable 3,964 trillion ORBS 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 led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 164,518 ORBS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Untold millions of ORBS are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, multiple births are a cause of celebration for tax collectors, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Basting Shoebox's national animal is the Cheetah, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sangres.

The Basting Shoebox is ranked 156,704^th in the world and 3,696^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 328.33 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.