The Republic of BARC Trooper 17 is a massive, genial nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, keen interest in outer space, and avant-garde cinema. The compassionate population of 1.363 billion BARC Trooper 17ians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 21.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient BARC Trooper 17ian economy, worth 58.5 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,896 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, and teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. BARC Trooper 17's national animal is the Droid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

BARC Trooper 17 is ranked 129,126^th in the world and 2,164^th in eta for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 882.64 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.