The Confederacy of Botchcraft is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 111 million Botchcraftians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Botchcraftian economy, worth 2.73 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 24,558 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and the government is reining in public spending. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Botchcraft's national animal is the elephant.

Botchcraft is ranked 180,659^th in the world and 98^th in Fifth Empire for Fattest Citizens, with 9.64 Obesity Rate.