The United Socialist States of Balkanic Federation is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chairman Boyko Borissov with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.161 billion Balkanians 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 Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sarajevo. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Balkanic Federationian economy, worth 32.8 trillion Balkanic Dinars 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, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Information Technology. 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 28,209 Balkanic Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, a wide-ranging purge of leading officials and family members is being carried out by Chairman Boyko Borissov, and all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Balkanic Federation's national animal is the Bat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Balkanic Federation is ranked 303,610^th in the world and 882^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -8.49 on the Hickory Productivity Index.