The Environmental Republic of Kiev and Babs is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Derek The Chicken with an even hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, sprawling nuclear power plants, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 11.694 billion Kiev and Babsians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crunchy. The average income tax rate is 84.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kiev and Babsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,339 trillion Disabled Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 114,533 Disabled Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries, the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kiev and Babs's national animal is the Kiev, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jesus Squad.

Kiev and Babs is ranked 29,192^nd in the world and 2,027^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.21 law-abiding acts per hour.