The Holy Bankish Empire of The Bankland is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Jameson with an even hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 1.339 billion Bankish people 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Area 14. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Bankish economy, worth 95.4 trillion Inches a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 71,270 Inches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mechanics are often exhausted by their work, suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, and Bankism has been named as The Bankland's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Bankland's national animal is the Sea Turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Bankism.

The Bankland is ranked 53,408^th in the world and 98^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 139.7 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.