The Backroad Bystander of Adkissa is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by the Executive Chairman with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, devout population of 5.33 billion Adkissans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jacona. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Adkissan economy, worth 598 trillion Adkissan Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 112,199 Adkissan Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 327,780 per year while the poor average 30,329, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Punting clubs and posh accents have been added to the national curriculum, cigarettes are dead-cheap, the government is raising the stakes on mental health to beat the odds of addiction, and gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Adkissa's national animal is the White Butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Adkissa is ranked 101,581^st in the world and 14^th in Blue Ridge for Highest Poor Incomes, with 30,329.33 Standard Monetary Units.