The Kingdom of Bochlon is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 3.035 billion Bochlonians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bochlon City. The average income tax rate is 66.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Bochlonian economy, worth 187 trillion Couins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,765 Couins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Airport security is provided by private companies, arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, a paperwork error has naval privateers being directed to attack land-locked nations, and the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bochlon's national animal is the duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Bochlon is ranked 224,098^th in the world and 5,213^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 22.4 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.