The Republic of Banopia is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 6.951 billion Banopians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 28.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Banopian economy, worth 141 trillion rubledollars a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 20,357 rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Organ donation is compulsory, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Banopia's national animal is the hawk.

Banopia is ranked 117,268^th in the world and 1^st in Rehab for raiders for Most Primitive, scoring -32.4 on the Scary Big Number Scale.