The Sultanate of Bashqurtistan is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 301 million Bashqurds are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.2%.

The sizeable but inefficient Bashqurd economy, worth 14.5 trillion tenges 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. 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 48,272 tenges, with the richest citizens earning 7.1 times as much as the poorest.

Kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, Big Belly is watching you, and pilgrims from across the world come to Bashqurtistan to worship a glowing tree with a face carved on it. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Bashqurtistan's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bashqurtistan is ranked 57,569^th in the world and 112^th in Fifth Empire for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 12,554.71 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.