The Empire of Bib Island is a very large, orderly nation, notable for its zero percent divorce rate, flagrant waste-dumping, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 484 million Bib Islanders are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bibtropolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The powerhouse Bib Islander economy, worth 64.6 trillion Rolls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 133,552 Rolls, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 721,699 per year while the poor average 12,801, a ratio of 56.4 to 1.

Pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on Bib Islander roads, engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut, Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls, and children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Bib Island's national animal is the bib fish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Bib Island is ranked 76,129^th in the world and 1^st in Urseom for Largest Black Market, with 4.95 trillion Standard Monetary Units.