The United Socialist States of Borodonia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 872 million Borodonians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Borodonian economy, worth 61.8 trillion Boradors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 70,860 Boradors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's been a banner year for local vexillology, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried North Californian Duck Dung" has been declared a national treasure, the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Borodonia's national animal is the North Californian Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Borodonia is ranked 27,825^th in the world and 2^nd in The Union of Free Republics for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 1,942.75 on the Societal Mobility Rating.