The Department of Bas-Rhin is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Jean-Luc Marx with an even hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 19.083 billion Bas-Rhinoises are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strasbourg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.1%.

The thriving Bas-Rhinois economy, worth a remarkable 1,579 trillion francs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 82,777 francs, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

Being dead no longer has any benefits, the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong, the nation was recently voted "most likely to betray its allies", and for 25 francs tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bas-Rhin's national animal is the wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Bas-Rhin is ranked 103,799^th in the world and 42^nd in Department Store for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 2,530.08 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.