The Republic of Bankowiata is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Strong AI with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.577 billion Bankowiatans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bankowiata City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Bankowiatan economy, worth a remarkable 1,968 trillion Virtual Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 299,292 Virtual Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects, Strong AI wears a chewed-up rubber chicken suit to meet foreign delegates, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", and serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bankowiata's national animal is the Hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bankowiata is ranked 14,038^th in the world and 396^th in The North Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 85.14 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.