The Sultanate of Bawland is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Sultan with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, keen interest in outer space, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, humorless population of 47.559 billion Bawlanders enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bawland City. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Bawlandian economy, worth a remarkable 8,537 trillion haws a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 179,522 haws, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people', and starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bawland's national animal is the wild booby, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Coolholism.

Bawland is ranked 75,773^rd in the world and 1^st in Seven Eleven for Largest Black Market, with 5.62 trillion Standard Monetary Units.