The Principality of Burback is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 3.011 billion Burbackians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Binghamton. The average income tax rate is 81.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Burbackian economy, worth 248 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,478 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days, and childhood friends of Leader are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Burback's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Burback is ranked 114,981^st in the world and 3,034^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 79.5 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.