The District of Batchawana is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Liard with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 42.475 billion Batchawanans 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 68.1%.

The strong Batchawanan economy, worth a remarkable 2,087 trillion aurums a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is 49,151 aurums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, Party members are derided as class traitors, the nation is wading into dangerous waters, and the first half of cabinet meetings include Liard complaining about the reasonable nation theory (Batchawana has found 2 easter eggs). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Batchawana's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Batchawana is ranked 105,199^th in the world and 19^th in Dog Lake for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.26 law-abiding acts per hour.