The Eternal Khaganate of Basementees is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Oðinnshrafn Khagan Symmachus Drake with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 16.907 billion Thu'uls have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt 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 11,594 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 685,787 Runcibles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial Ursine Phoenix', there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes, and students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework. 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 163,105^th in the world and 112^th in The Union of Democratic States for Most Primitive, scoring -1527.27 on the Scary Big Number Scale.