The Oppressed Peoples of Bus Replacement Service is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 1.48 billion Bus Replacement Serviceans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Bus Replacement Servicean economy, worth 14.8 trillion tickets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 9,998 tickets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bus Replacement Service's national animal is the lost train, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Bus Replacement Service is ranked 312,582^nd in the world and 68^th in Colonia Apollonis for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 319.57 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.