The NationStates ~~TYPE~~ of A Badly Conceived Designation is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by ~~LEADER~~ with an even hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, enslaved workforce, and hatred of cheese. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 19.728 billion ~~DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL~~ are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ~~CAPITAL~~. The average income tax rate is 37.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ~~DEMONYMADJECTIVE~~ economy, worth a remarkable 4,772 trillion ~~CURRENCY~~s 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 241,918 ~~CURRENCY~~s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels, the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass, and a division of tanks navigating "as the crow flies" has driven into a ravine. Crime is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. A Badly Conceived Designation's national animal is the ~~ANIMAL~~, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is ~~FAITH~~.

A Badly Conceived Designation is ranked 137,841^st in the world and 19^th in Testregionia for Most Extreme, scoring 20.03 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.