The Burman Kakistocracy of Basementees is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Oðinnshrafn Khagan Numerian IV Drake with an even hand, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.426 billion Thu'uls are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novus Damascus. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient K't Hu'ul economy, worth an astonishing 14,152 trillion Runcibles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. 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 a breathtaking 728,511 Runcibles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The explosive fireball of the disintegrating space shuttle has devastated Cape Basementees, fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate, criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers, and hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Basementees's national animal is the Ursine Phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Nahuatl.

Basementees is ranked 270^th in the world and 1^st in Pax Britannia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 103.7 Effective Tax Rate.