The Most Serene Republic of Balkvla Islands is a gargantuan, efficient nation, notable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.525 billion Balkvla Islandsians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nimbasa City. The average income tax rate is 96.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Balkvla Islandsian economy, worth a remarkable 2,045 trillion hitoes a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 131,761 hitoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", the best fashion comes straight to the high street from sweatshops all across the globe, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, and the new classical revitalization of Nimbasa City is expected to be completed sometime in the next century. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Balkvla Islands's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Balkvla Islands is ranked 13,836^th in the world and 15^th in The Wellspring for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 344.1 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.