The Chaste Cathar State of Vegetarian Basques is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Domingo Lardizabal with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.505 billion Basques are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bilbao. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Basque economy, worth a remarkable 1,288 trillion euskoes 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. 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 impressive 171,633 euskoes, with the richest citizens earning 6.9 times as much as the poorest.

Domingo Lardizabal tells rebellious ministers to "drop and give me twenty", children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers, and The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vegetarian Basques's national animal is the booted eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Catharism.

Vegetarian Basques is ranked 39,413^th in the world and 8^th in Pecan Sandies for Highest Food Quality, scoring 41.94 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.