The Democratic Republic of Boldia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Stephen Isakov with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 11.998 billion Boldians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Barcelona. The average income tax rate is 53.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Boldian economy, worth a remarkable 1,303 trillion thalers a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 108,638 thalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags, multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy", birth rates have hit an all-time low, and there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Boldia's national animal is the mermaid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodoxy.

Boldia is ranked 38,580^th in the world and 451^st in Europe for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 4.36 Bank.